The Problem with A.I. Writing is the Problem is an Artificial Life: You Lose Agency
What a recent MIT study on A.I. can tell us about ourselves
“The more you rely on A.I. to write for you, the less ownership you naturally feel over that work. In one way this is simply seeing reality for what it is. It quite reasonably is not your work, and you can recognize that. And yet, you are treating it as your work, and there’s the conflict. We surrender our agency and in exchange we receive free labor” (O. Alan Noble). -
This week a group of researchers at MIT’s Media Lab released a “pre-publication” paper on the effects of using A.I. to write papers, specifically SAT essays. Pre-publication means that it has not been peer-reviewed yet, so facts on the ground may change in the coming year, but it’s a promising paper. The study was compr…
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