Literally everything that ChatGPT does has humans in the loop. A human Types the prompt and Pastes the response, then they Paste it into Prolific on the computer that they Carry into work every day and manually Plug into the wall. The only step that the LLM does is generate the text. In the case of that Chaucer poem, it simply plagiarized the work of a human, but, even when it doesn't, in this experimental setup, it doesn't have an original style, but relies on the pre-existing styles of famous poets . In other words, not only did they explicitly put 10 poets "in the loop," but, loop or no loop, this methodology is incapable of proving that AI is "indistinguishable from human-written poetry" because human poets are expected to innovate on style. This paradigm is an ideologically-motivated work of fiction, based on a true story in the most Hollywood sense. It is the difference between, say, remote-controlled cars and self-driving ones. AI cannot...