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.
That’s like saying people prefer lots of highly processed food with heaps of sugar and no nutrients. It’s definitely true in some ways, but not a good thing to organise your life or society around
Why? What harms come from the AI generated stories to their readers?
“If you lie, people won’t notice”.
Quite the lesson to learn.
that’s a lot of psychology experiments right?
you make them do this and then watch that
you misinform them and see what they do with that information
The milgram experiment wouldn’t work if they told people that they’re not really killing someone or without “lying” they would have really needed to kill someone which is worse.
There’s also ethics involved like a debriefing after the experiment and the lying or deceptions can’t cause damage etc.
