AI is increasingly dominating written communication, producing a vast amount of synthetic content daily. Researchers are exploring how this prevalence affects human writing. An experiment conducted by Jeremy Nguyen revealed that exposure to AI-generated text made participants write significantly more verbiage in subsequent tasks, suggesting AI could influence writing style rather than just the content produced for chatbots. As text generators like ChatGPT become commonplace, their impact on human communication patterns could redefine how we formulate messages in personal and professional contexts.
We didn't say, 'Hey, try to make it better, or more like GPT,'” Nguyen told me. Yet “more like GPT” is essentially what happened: After the participants saw the AI-generated text, they became more verbose, drafting 87 words on average versus 32.7 in the first round.
Text generators tend to write long, even when the prompt is curt. Might people be influenced by this style, rather than the language they use when typing to a chatbot?
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