Levent Bulut published a three-study benchmark evaluating the reliability of machine-generated annotations for a Turkish narrative corpus, revealing significant discrepancies between automated raters and human judgment. The study tested six binary craft features across 120 and 100 scenes using rule-based detectors and models including Gemini 2.5 Flash, Grok, ChatGPT 5.5, and Claude Fable 5 High.

  • Cohen’s kappa scores were near chance for five of the six labellers, ranging from 0.000 to 0.027.
  • For the rule requiring inference on abstract states, human raters identified 9 positives while ChatGPT 5.5 identified 40 and the detector identified 72.
  • ChatGPT 5.5 achieved the highest raw agreement at 84.5%, primarily because five of the six rules had lopsided distributions favoring negative labels.
  • The author notes that four of the six rules were effectively untestable due to evaluation set defects rather than model failures.

The results suggest either that the feature requires inference beyond current models or that the definition is not operational enough for consistent application. Bulut has open-sourced the dataset, prompts, and scripts to seek a second independent human rater.