People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true
People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true
Participants in a study were willing to spend just as much time and money on an AI-generated story as one they were told was written by a human.
AI-generated stories are stories written by humans, but watered-down and plagiarized. AI would not be able to write stories without
stealingtraining from human-made stories.There's a large swathe of people who want comfort food entertainment—unchallenging and similar to what they've enjoyed watching/reading/listening to before—at least some of the time. It makes sense that LLMs would be good at filling that need, since they can pretty much only generate more of the same.
People say they prefer food cooked by professional chefs over fast food, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true
get a professional chef to make you fast food and you will understand why they are professionals
People say they prefer meaningful relationships with other humans more than buggering goats. A new study shows that might not be true.
Game of Thrones was the most popular series in the world, despite having multiple characters and parallel story arcs. People underestimate other people.
This is kind of stating the obvious. Humans can write shit stories too.
Feels like news headlines are just competing for maximum cognitive dissonance. I guess that's how you make a profit these days.
Reed Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Martin Abel is an assistant professor of economics
Reed makes sense but wtf does economics have to do with it?
Econometrics has basically taken over for statistics in a lot of social sciences, for some reason. You rarely see a social scientist team up with a statistician - they team up with an economist, and they apply econometrics to whatever it is they are studying.
There could be a couple of reasons. Economists might be perceived as having a better understanding of "the real world", as they are used to building predictive models around real world societal affairs, which is not really the job description of a statistician. Alternatively, it could be because they themselves are social scientists more than mathematicians, and they therefore "speak the language" of social sciences and are capable of interdisciplinary co-operation.
I think it's a problem. More social scientists should learn to think critically of their methods and to do their own empirical research.
The freakanomics effect on a generation of academics
Economics involves understanding and predicting the behaviour of large groups of people, doesn't seem all that far off topic here. And of course the way that people react to AI-generated content in products will be quite relevant to lots of people trying to market such products.