- The use of artificial intelligence can make our partner insecure, and he will be less happy with us.
- If our friend finds out that ChatGPT wrote our last message to him, he may not take it well.
- According to the research, the impact of including AI in our communications with our immediate environment goes far beyond the message.
The research findings, which say that it is not a good idea to use AI to write our messages to our friends and partners, are not very surprising. However, it is worth thinking why not.
“It makes perfect sense why it wouldn’t work well if it turns out we didn’t write the message, but ChatGPT wrote it for us,” said Bingjie Liu, research leader and professor of communications at Ohio State University. “However, the impact goes beyond just the message.”
We lose trust when artificial intelligence writes to us
“When a person receives a written message with the help of artificial intelligence, we noticed that the trust in the relationship is shaken, whether it is a friendship or a romantic relationship,” Liu said. “People are unsafe.”
However, we must add that it was not only the AI that significantly dampened the research participants’ enthusiasm for one relationship. It also has a similar negative effect if someone uses someone else’s help to write a letter to someone close to them. “People want their partner or friend to make an effort and put a message in for them. Not an artificial intelligence or someone else,” the research leader concluded.
Only if it turns out, is there a problem?
“Of course, no one is standing in front of each other saying I just wrote you the message using ChatGPT,” Liu pointed out. “However, AI has become so popular that the feeling sometimes creeps into people’s heads when they feel weird about a text message they receive from their friend or partner.”
Like a Turing test They call a method that can be used to determine whether a given text was generated by a computer or a human. “Right now, what we’re saying is that people are running the Turing test in their heads to see if the message they received was written by an AI,” Liu said. “This has a devastating impact on relationships and trust.”
We have to work on our human relationships ourselves if we want them to succeed. “Let’s not use technology just because we can. Sincerity and authenticity are still the essential components of the relationship between two people,” the communication professor stressed.
source: Teach daily, picture: Unsplash
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