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beep@beep@piefed.world
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People prefer stories written by AI – especially when told they’re written by a human

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1311057/people-prefer-stories-written-by-ai-especially-when-told-theyre-written-by-a-human

People gave the highest ratings to stories generated by AI that they were told had been written by a human, and were unable to tell the difference between human- and AI-created stories, according to new research published by Cambridge University Press.

www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1138206
EurekAlert!People prefer stories written by AI – especially when told they’re written by a humanPeople gave the highest ratings to stories generated by AI that they were told had been written by a human, and were unable to tell the difference between human- and AI-created stories, according to new research published by Cambridge University Press.
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The #1 thing I can think of is plagiarism.

AI stories are quite literally unoriginal works generated from original mediums and it’s harmful to all authors worldwide.

AI-giarism is still plagiarism.

…uchicago.edu/…/plagiarism-copyright-and-ai

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/…/688167/

www.sciencedirect.com/…/S1096751625000806

lawreview.uchicago.eduPlagiarism, Copyright, and AI | The University of Chicago Law ReviewCritics of generative AI often describe it as a “plagiarism machine.” They may be right, though not in the sense they mean. With rare exceptions, generative AI doesn’t just copy someone else’s creative expression, producing outputs that infringe copyright. But it does get its ideas from somewhere. And it’s quite bad at identifying the source of those ideas. That means that students (and professors, and lawyers, and journalists) who use AI to produce their work generally aren’t engaged in copyright infringement. But they are often passing someone else’s work off as their own, whether or not they know it. While plagiarism is a problem in academic work generally, AI makes it much worse because authors who use AI may be unknowingly taking the ideas and words of someone else. Disclosing that the authors used AI isn’t a sufficient solution to the problem because the people whose ideas are being used don’t get credit for those ideas. Whether or not a declaration that “AI came up with my ideas
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