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GPT-4 is judged more human than humans in displaced and inverted Turing tests (arxiv.org)
3 points by ghita_ on Aug 25, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: Judges read chat transcripts instead of talking to the person themselves, then guessed who was human. Both people and AI judges guessed wrong more than half the time, and called the best AI human more often than actual humans.

Abstract

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.

Ishika Rathi, Sydney Taylor, Benjamin K. Bergen, Cameron R. Jones
arXiv:2407.08853 · cs.HC, cs.CL · submitted Jul 11, 2024
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