Section 2: Humanistic and Social Scientific Perspectives

Linguistics

AI and Human Writing: Collaboration or Appropriation?

Naomi S. Baron

Abstract

Since the earliest days of artificial intelligence (AI) research, getting computers to mirror human linguistic abilities has been of keen interest. Recent developments in natural language processing have made possible not only impressive machine translation and speech-based personal assistants but generation of human-like written text.

This chapter probes how AI writing tools are increasingly pervading traditional human writing space. We begin by considering humans as writers: how writing affects our minds and brains, and potential motivations for writing. We then turn to the roles AI ...

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