Chat GPT has a knack for creating compelling disinformation. In a new study from the University of Zurich (UZH), participants of tweets generated by Chat-GPT had more difficulty recognizing fake news than tweets generated by humans. At the same time, the participants understood tweets from Chat-GPT better, as shown by the study published in the journal “Science Advances”.
The study participants were unable to reliably distinguish which tweets were written by Chat-GPT and which were written by humans. “GPT-3 is a double-edged sword,” the researchers wrote in the study’s conclusion.
For the study, researchers at the University of Zurich asked 697 participants between the ages of 26 and 76 to guess whether a tweet was written by a real Twitter user or by chat GPT-3. In addition, the participants were asked whether the tweets were true or not. The topics of the tweets included the corona pandemic and vaccine safety, climate change and homeopathic treatments for cancer.
The participants recognized misinformation created by humans with a 92 percent probability and that created by Chat-GPT with an 89 percent probability. In addition, human-compiled tweets took longer on average for participants to determine whether a tweet was correct or not. This shows, according to the research, that GPT-3 informs “more efficiently” than humans.
These results indicate that information campaigns made by GPT-3 (but evaluated by trained people) would be more effective in crisis situations, for example, as the UZH wrote in a statement about the study. However, the findings also reveal risks. In the UZH report, the researchers therefore argue for strict, evidence-based and ethically responsible regulations to counter the potential threat of these technologies.
Source: Krone
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