A new study finds that many people struggle to tell the difference between news stories written by humans and those generated by AI tools such as ChatGPT. According to reporting on the research, participants are presented with content from both sources and are asked to identify which version is human-written versus AI-generated. The study concludes that readers’ ability to accurately detect the origin of the text is limited, indicating that AI-produced articles can closely match the style and presentation of human-authored reporting. The accounts also state that, beyond the difficulty in identifying the source, participants tend to rate or prefer AI-generated writing more than human-written stories in the study’s comparisons. The coverage emphasizes that the findings relate to reader perception and performance in a controlled test setting, rather than proving how the underlying information in the articles compares. Overall, the articles describe research suggesting AI-generated news can be difficult to detect and may be received favorably by some audiences.