AI-Generated Creative Works: The Surprising Gap Between Bias and Consumer Behavior
2025-03-27
A recent study reveals a surprising gap between people's stated preferences and their actual consumption behavior regarding AI-generated content. Participants, while expressing a preference for human-created short stories, invested the same amount of time and money reading both AI-generated and human-written stories. Even knowing a story was AI-generated didn't reduce reading time or willingness to pay. This raises concerns about the future of creative industry jobs and the effectiveness of AI labels in curbing the flood of AI-generated work.