AI Writing Assistants Influence Topic Choice in Self-Presentation
AI Writing Assistants Influence Topic Choice in Self-Presentation
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10.1145/3544549.3585893
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2023-04
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Ritika Poddar;R. Sinha;Mor Naaman;Maurice Jakesch
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作者：
Ritika Poddar;R. Sinha;Mor Naaman;Maurice Jakesch
人工智能语言技术日益辅助和扩展人类的交流。虽然人工智能介导的交流减少了人类的努力，但人们对其社会后果知之甚少。在这项研究中，我们调查了在个人自我展示中使用人工智能写作助手是否会改变人们谈论自己的方式。在一项在线实验中，我们要求参与者（N=200）向他人介绍自己。一个人工智能语言助手通过建议句子补全来支持他们的写作。生成建议的语言模型进行了微调，以便更好地建议兴趣、工作或酒店主题。我们通过分析参与者在自我展示中讨论的话题来评估语言模型的话题偏好如何影响用户的话题选择。我们的研究结果表明，人工智能语言技术可能会改变用户谈论的话题。我们讨论了对人工智能语言技术中内置的主题进行仔细辩论和评估的必要性。
AI language technologies increasingly assist and expand human communication. While AI-mediated communication reduces human effort, its societal consequences are poorly understood. In this study, we investigate whether using an AI writing assistant in personal self-presentation changes how people talk about themselves. In an online experiment, we asked participants (N=200) to introduce themselves to others. An AI language assistant supported their writing by suggesting sentence completions. The language model generating suggestions was fine-tuned to preferably suggest either interest, work, or hospitality topics. We evaluate how the topic preference of a language model affected users’ topic choice by analyzing the topics participants discussed in their self-presentations. Our results suggest that AI language technologies may change the topics their users talk about. We discuss the need for a careful debate and evaluation of the topic priors built into AI language technologies.