In an examination of thousands of human-written college admissions essays and those generated by AI, researchers found that the AI-generated essays are most similar to essays authored by students who are males, with higher socioeconomic status and higher levels of social privilege. The AI-generated writing is also less varied than that written by humans.
  • Lugh@futurology.todayOPMEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    Dear ChatGPT - Please pretend I’m a rich, white man when you’re writing my college admissions essay for me, thanks, Signed - A Poor

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      I wish this was a thing when I was writing application essays. They’re a great example of virtually meaningless content that needs to fit a certain shape.

      LLMs are great at generating exactly this type of garbage.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Even before AIs, essays seemed meaningless to me. I wasn’t sure if they were, or I just didn’t get it, but the former is looking more likely now.

    • Murvel@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Dear guy in the comments; please reply to me in ‘Rich White Man’.

  • aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    Truly shocking that the AI trained on data provided mostly by male and privileged individuals would sound male and privileged.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Yup. Guess who’s the most likely to write comments like this one I’m typing, that eventually get shoveled into an AI?