{"id":5348,"date":"2024-03-26T13:10:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2024-03-26T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:45:20","slug":"survey-publics-confidence-in-its-ability-to-evaluate-ai-generated-text-cause-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2024\/03\/26\/survey-publics-confidence-in-its-ability-to-evaluate-ai-generated-text-cause-for-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Public\u2019s Confidence in its Ability to Evaluate AI-Generated Text Cause for Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Burt Glass<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>More Americans are adopting tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, but a new opinion survey suggests scoring in their own ability to evaluate the accuracy, reliability, completeness, and biases of the text generated by artificial intelligence is cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/yi-grace-ji\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yi Grace Ji,<\/a> assistant professor at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication and the primary investigator of the survey, in partnership with Ipsos, said the average result \u2013 a mean score of 3.26 out of 5, with a 5\u00a0for individuals\u00a0who strongly\u00a0agree\u00a0that they can perform\u00a0a set of\u00a0specified\u00a0tasks in critically evaluating AI-generated responses \u2013 is worrisome, especially because respondents tend to overestimate their own abilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/publics-confidence-in-its-ability-to-evaluate-ai-generated-text-cause-for-concern-says-com-researcher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full story here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Burt Glass More Americans are adopting tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, but a new opinion survey suggests scoring in their own ability to evaluate the accuracy, reliability, completeness, and biases of the text generated by artificial intelligence is cause for concern. According to Yi Grace Ji, assistant professor at Boston University\u2019s College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}