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People prefer stories written by AI – especially when told they’re written by a human (www.eurekalert.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1311057/people-prefer-stories-written-by-ai-especially-when-told-theyre-written-by-a-human

People gave the highest ratings to stories generated by AI that they were told had been written by a human, and were unable to tell the difference between human- and AI-created stories, according to new research published by Cambridge University Press.

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[–] weps@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"public assumptions about the capabilities of AI are increasingly out of date"

writing stories is another to add to the list of things AI does better than humans

I agree that the anti AI crowd is consistently out of date or misinformed about AI. It's an echo chamber which makes them believe AI is less capable than it it and the anti AI crowd should work on that. More of the real arguments and less of the "AI bad at tasks".

[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 2 points 2 weeks ago

The public assumption that AI can't tell fact from fiction and confidently makes stuff up doesn't seem at odds with them being able to spin a good yarn.