Claude Opus 5.5's Oboe Concerto Fooled 60% of Listeners, Beating Handel and Vivaldi
deanwball · x · 2026-10-13
A blind test found that 60% of respondents believed Claude Opus 5.5's Oboe Concerto in C minor was human-written — a higher rate than pieces by Handel (58%) and Vivaldi (43%), showing AI-composed classical music can now pass as human work.
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