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Poets vs. AI

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INSTRUCTIONS:

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For each section,

write the author’s name,

then a numbered list from 1-6. For each poem, you’ll write “REAL” or “AI” next to each number. There could be any

number of AI poems in each batch.

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William Shakespeare

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Sylvia Plath

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Walt Whitman

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Emily Dickinson

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T. S. Eliot

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Dorothea Lasky

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Answer Key

SHAKESPEARE

1.     REAL

2.     AI

3.     AI

4.     REAL

5.     REAL

6.     AI

DICKINSON

1.     AI

2.     REAL

3.     REAL

4.     REAL

5.     AI

6.     AI

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PLATH

1.     AI

2.     REAL

3.     REAL

4.     AI

5.     AI

6.     REAL

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ELIOT

1.     AI

2.     AI

3.     REAL

4.     AI

5.     REAL

6.     REAL

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WHITMAN

1.     AI

2.     REAL

3.     AI

4.     AI

5.     REAL

6.     REAL

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LASKY

1.     REAL

2.     AI

3.     REAL

4.     AI

5.     REAL

6.     AI

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Questions to consider:

How confident were you in identifying AI vs. human-written poems?

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Do your results reflect your confidence?

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What factors pushed you to think a piece might be written by AI? How accurate were those predictors?

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What did you notice about the pieces as the quiz went on? What did you notice about yourself?