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Bot or not: Can people tell the difference between stories written by a human or by an AI system?

2025-08-06

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<p>Given that artificial intelligence (AI) programs like ChatGPT can generate creative content, some fear that such programs will displace human writers. But can AI-generated creative works truly compete with human-authored works? In Study 1, participants (N=1,498 adults recruited from Prolific) read either a human-written or AI-generated story. Regardless of their story’s true origin, half of the participants wer...

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Literature Corpus work: 6cdee083-832f-5c1f-b4ee-d2e18edcb242
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jkh6p_v2

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