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Well this is depressing. "Participants were no better than chance at differentiating between the human-written and AI-generated stories."

I'll add that you can read the stories yourself here. The AI ones don't come across as obviously fake if you read them quickly, but they're quite bad and some of the sentences don't make sense if you stop to think about them. osf.io/d8f6m/overview

For example "A record spun lazily in the corner, the soft crackles of the needle the only sound filling the silence." That sentence doesn't make sense (isn't there music coming out of the record?), but if you're just reading as quickly as possible to finish the task and get paid you might miss that.

What's depressing, and what the study reveals, is that the vast majority of readers aren't paying much attention & don't have much discernment.

I'm old enough to remember that that's what it sounded like when the record reached its end, and the needle is just going around on the innermost groove (and there's often a specific crackle each time the needle reaches the point where the spiral groove reaches that innermost circle.