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

2026-01-28

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<p>How do people perceive AI-generated creative content? In Study 1, participants (1,498 adults recruited from Prolific) read either a human-written or AI-generated story. Half were told thattheir story was written by a human, and half were told that their story was written by ChatGPT. Participants rated the AI-generated story as higher quality and more absorbing, but they rated thestory better on both measures wh...

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Literature Corpus work: c9faf2d4-2c0f-55d1-bfe1-807d3dc852f9
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/jkh6p_v4

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