Maai & AI

Tagged: ai-perception

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Bot or not: Can people tell the difference between stories written by a human or by an AI system? | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core

This empirical study examines whether people can reliably distinguish between stories written by humans versus generated by AI systems. The research investigates the cognitive and perceptual barriers that affect our ability to detect machine-generated text in narrative contexts, with implications for trust, transparency, and how we evaluate authenticity in written communication.
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Metaphors of AI indicate that people increasingly perceive AI as warm and human-like

Collects over 12,000 open-ended metaphor responses from a nationally representative US sample across 12 months, developing a systematic framework to quantify how people conceptualise AI. Finds that Americans increasingly perceive AI as warm, competent, and human-like, with attributions of warmth and human-likeness rising significantly in the year after ChatGPT's release. Demographic variation matters: women, older individuals, and people of colour are more likely to attribute human-like qualities, and these perceptions strongly predict trust and willingness to adopt AI.