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Human Bias in the Face of AI: Examining Human Judgment Against Text Labeled as AI Generated

Tiffany Zhu, Iain Weissburg, Kexun Zhang, William Yang Wang

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Abstract

As AI advances in text generation, human trust in AI generated content remains constrained by biases that go beyond concerns of accuracy. This study explores how bias shapes the perception of AI versus human generated content. Through three experiments involving text rephrasing, news article summarization, and persuasive writing, we investigated how human raters respond to labeled and unlabeled content. While the raters could not differentiate the two types of texts in the blind test, they overwhelmingly favored content labeled as "Human Generated," over those labeled "AI Generated," by a preference score of over 30%. We observed the same pattern even when the labels were deliberately swapped. This human bias against AI has broader societal and cognitive implications, as it undervalues AI performance. This study highlights the limitations of human judgment in interacting with AI and offers a foundation for improving human-AI collaboration, especially in creative fields.

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5 main pages, 10 total pages
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cs.CLComputation and Language cs.AIArtificial Intelligence cs.HCHuman-Computer Interaction

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    • FWIW: When I accuse folks of it, take it more seriously - we literally wrote a paper (ICLR 2026) on deslopping language models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061 Also you might not care, but normies sure care! https://arxiv.org/html/2410.03723v2 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.08831v1

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