# AI short stories beat human ones on quality — until readers were told a machine wrote them

Start with two numbers: 1.54 against 0.97. On a scale that runs from minus 3 to plus 3, that is how readers scored the quality of short stories produced by ChatGPT 4.0 versus short stories written by people. The machine came out ahead. The immersion scores tilted the same direction, 1.42 for the AI-

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| Published | 9 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/ai-short-stories-beat-human-ones-on-quality-until-readers-were-told-a-machine-wrote-them/