Fascinating and disturbing finding on how AI co-writing can influence opinion from Maurice Jakesh thesis research (h/t @natematias ). Jakesh had people write short essays using an AI tool like Google Autocomplete on whether social media was good or bad. When the tool pre-generated language supportive of social media (top bar), people were more likely to write essays with that opinion and vice versa (bottom bar).
@elipariser this is the thing that people don't want to admit to themselves, we're letting algorithms brainwash us. And we have zero control over the values and biases of those algorithms.