The line between artificial intelligence and human creativity are blurring rapidly across the board, but the shades of gray are especially muddled in the art world. New research shows that AI images are already good enough that people are often unable to differentiate between it and art created by humans—but somehow manage to prefer the latter.

As AI tools like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion churn out paintings, sketches, sculptures and more, something deeper in our artistic consciousness may still respond more strongly to works crafted by human hands and minds.

New research from Bowling Green State University, published in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, puts numbers to this instinctive favoritism.

The study by industrial psychologist Andrew Samo andpProfessor Scott Highhouse found that when shown a mix of AI and human visual art, participants correctly identified the source only around “50-60% of the time.” Their guesses also exhibited a low level of confidence.

“People are unable to accurately identify artwork source,” Samo and Highhouse observe, “but prefer human art and experience more positive emotions in response to human artwork.”

The team found that viewers associated human art with m

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