I Read More AI Stories…and I'm Scared for Us

Can readers really tell the difference between AI writing and a human author? I thought spotting AI writing would be obvious, until I can across an experiment by fantasy author Mark Lawrence. He asked more than 1,000 readers to rate 8 flash fiction stories as AI or human. And the results were...concerning.

Read Mark's full post here:
https://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2025/08/so-is-ai-writing-any-good-part-2.html

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:26 Human vs AI writing experiment
02:46 Story 1
05:39 Story 2
09:58 Story 3
12:55 Is there any hope for fiction writers?

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