Does money lead to happiness?
Researchers from a coalition of West Coast universities were curious how 100 human participants would respond to the age-old question, but not because of their own pursuit of happiness. Instead, the researchers wanted to know how participants’ use of AI systems might sway their (written) answers.
The research team found that users who heavily relied on large language models (LLMs) produced responses that diverged significantly in meaning from the answers of participants who only partially relied on LLMs or avoided their use altogether, suggesting heavy AI use alters the substance of humans’ arguments in addition to changing writing style.
“The LLMs are pushing the essays away from anything that a human would have ever written,” said Natasha Jaques, one of the lead authors of the study and a computer science professor at the University of Washington, highlighting the “blandification” of writing that relies on AI systems. “They
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