Writing with AI help can shift your opinions | Cornell Chronicle
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Artificial intelligence-powered writing assistants that autocomplete sentences or offer “smart replies” not only put words into people’s mouths, they also put ideas into their heads, according to new research.
  • lily33@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Is that effect any different than the one you’d get if you have biased references, or biased search results, when doing the researchb for your writing?

    • Mardukas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Well of course it will be different. One has to do with another author publishing questionable data and the other would be related to misunderstanding of someone else’s published data. In this case, the use of AI in writing is implied to result in authors not being in control of what they themselves publish.

      All of these are bad but do not necessarily arise on purpose. But let’s not add ways to muddy the already mudied waters of science.