Why is AI-generated language so hard to understand?
- View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:There is a widespread sense that AI-generated text has recently become harder to understand.
- In this study, we investigate a set of psycholinguistic features that are known to correlate with human processing difficulty (e.g., object relative clauses, long syntactic dependencies, low-frequency n-grams).
- Using a novel corpus of AI-generated text across diverse domains, we find that AI models use these difficult features more often than paraphrases generated by round-trip translation.
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- View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:There is a widespread sense that AI-generated text has recently become harder to understand.
- In this study, we investigate a set of psycholinguistic features that are known to correlate with human processing difficulty (e.g., object relative clauses, long syntactic dependencies, low-frequency n-grams).
- Using a novel corpus of AI-generated text across diverse domains, we find that AI models use these difficult features more often than paraphrases generated by round-trip translation.
Sources: Arxiv