The basic problem is that GPT generates easy poetry, and the authors were comparing to difficult human poets like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and rating using a bunch of people who don't particuarly like poetry. If you actually do like poetry, comparing PlathGPT to Sylvia Plath is so offensive as to be misanthropic: the human Sylvia Plath is objectively better by any possible honest measure. I don't think the authors have any interest in being honest: ignorance is no excuse for something like this.
Given the audience, it would be much more honest if the authors compared with popular poets, like Robert Frost, whose work is sophisticated but approachable.
The basic problem is that GPT generates easy poetry, and the authors were comparing to difficult human poets like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and rating using a bunch of people who don't particuarly like poetry. If you actually do like poetry, comparing PlathGPT to Sylvia Plath is so offensive as to be misanthropic: the human Sylvia Plath is objectively better by any possible honest measure. I don't think the authors have any interest in being honest: ignorance is no excuse for something like this.
Given the audience, it would be much more honest if the authors compared with popular poets, like Robert Frost, whose work is sophisticated but approachable.