What follows are two snippets of writing. Which one was written by Hunter S. Thompson and which one was written by generative AI? Click the Sample 1 tab to get started.
The highway stretched out like a demented serpent, shimmering under the brutal sun, the asphalt melting into a hallucinatory mirage that threatened to swallow us whole. I gripped the wheel with one hand, the other clutching a lukewarm beer, veins buzzing with caffeine and bad decisions. The desert air reeked of freedom and despair, a cocktail of diesel fumes and desperation. Somewhere in the distance, a neon sign flickered like a dying star, promising cheap whiskey and lies. My companion mumbled something incoherent about the decline of American values, but I could barely hear him over the roar of the engine and the pounding in my skull. This was the edge—the place where sanity buckled under the weight of excess, and you either leaned into the madness or got left behind, bleeding on the roadside.
We were somehwere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive ..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of huge bats, all swooping and screaching and diving around the car, which was going a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"
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