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Main Authors: Rathi, Ishika, Taylor, Sydney, Bergen, Benjamin K., Jones, Cameron R.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08853
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author Rathi, Ishika
Taylor, Sydney
Bergen, Benjamin K.
Jones, Cameron R.
author_facet Rathi, Ishika
Taylor, Sydney
Bergen, Benjamin K.
Jones, Cameron R.
contents Everyday AI detection requires differentiating between people and AI in informal, online conversations. In many cases, people will not interact directly with AI systems but instead read conversations between AI systems and other people. We measured how well people and large language models can discriminate using two modified versions of the Turing test: inverted and displaced. GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and displaced human adjudicators judged whether an agent was human or AI on the basis of a Turing test transcript. We found that both AI and displaced human judges were less accurate than interactive interrogators, with below chance accuracy overall. Moreover, all three judged the best-performing GPT-4 witness to be human more often than human witnesses. This suggests that both humans and current LLMs struggle to distinguish between the two when they are not actively interrogating the person, underscoring an urgent need for more accurate tools to detect AI in conversations.
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spellingShingle GPT-4 is judged more human than humans in displaced and inverted Turing tests
Rathi, Ishika
Taylor, Sydney
Bergen, Benjamin K.
Jones, Cameron R.
Human-Computer Interaction
Computation and Language
Everyday AI detection requires differentiating between people and AI in informal, online conversations. In many cases, people will not interact directly with AI systems but instead read conversations between AI systems and other people. We measured how well people and large language models can discriminate using two modified versions of the Turing test: inverted and displaced. GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and displaced human adjudicators judged whether an agent was human or AI on the basis of a Turing test transcript. We found that both AI and displaced human judges were less accurate than interactive interrogators, with below chance accuracy overall. Moreover, all three judged the best-performing GPT-4 witness to be human more often than human witnesses. This suggests that both humans and current LLMs struggle to distinguish between the two when they are not actively interrogating the person, underscoring an urgent need for more accurate tools to detect AI in conversations.
title GPT-4 is judged more human than humans in displaced and inverted Turing tests
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08853