AI-generated tweets might be more convincing than real people, research finds
by Justine Calma from The Verge - All Posts on (#6CJE1)
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People apparently find tweets more convincing when they're written by AI language models. At least, that was the case in a new study comparing content created by humans to language generated by OpenAI's model GPT-3.
The authors of the new research surveyed people to see if they could discern whether a tweet was written by another person or by GPT-3. The result? People couldn't really do it. The survey also asked them to decide whether the information in each tweet was true or not. This is where things get even dicier, especially since the content focused on science topics like vaccines and climate change that are subject to a lot of misinformation campaigns online.
Turns out, study participants had a harder time recognizing...