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Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster


Stanford researchers analyzed 305 million texts, revealing AI-writing trends.

Weixin Liang and Yaohui Zhang from Stanford served as lead authors, with collaborators Mihai Codreanu, Jiayu Wang, Hancheng Cao, and James Zou. Due to the difficulty in detecting heavily edited or increasingly sophisticated AI-generated content, the researchers say their reported adoption rates could substantially underestimate true levels of generative AI use. According to the researchers, all sectors they analyzed (consumer complaints, corporate communications, job postings) showed similar adoption patterns: sharp increases beginning three to four months after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch, followed by stabilization in late 2023.

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