AI Favors Texts Written by Other Ais, Even When They're Worse Than Human Ones
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A study found that AI tends to favor texts written by other AIs over human-written ones, even when they're of poorer quality, sparking discussion on the need for quantitative evidence to support this claim.
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This is an interesting phenomenon, but I would have liked to see some quantitative evidence for this N=24 sample, e.g. would a paper ordinarily get an 80% score but the LLM gives it a 95%?
I also wonder how accurate a professor's perception of style is. I tend to write in a formal style, even in online forums like this one, and I wonder if people assume I use LLMs as a result (I don't).