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Most people do not realize when a personal message they receive was written by AI, study finds

  • Written by Andras Molnar, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
imagePeople tend to be offended when they get a personal note written by AI – if they know.Ekaterina Buravleva/iStock via Getty Images

Two new experiments show that most people do not even consider that a personal message could be AI-generated, even when they themselves use artificial intelligence to write.

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