Study
Distinguishing between humans and AI is difficult
Human or machine? Some answers from chatbots like ChatGPT are so convincing that it's hard to tell the difference. This worries many people in Germany.
Berlin (dpa) - Is it a machine or a person who answers? The increasing performance of systems with artificial intelligence is causing many people in Germany to worry that they will no longer be able to recognize them accurately. This is a key finding of a representative opinion poll conducted by the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research on behalf of Deutsche Telekom.
According to the survey, around three quarters of people in Germany aged 16 and over have already heard of AI programs such as ChatGPT or Google Gemini. In this group, two thirds of respondents believe that it has become difficult to distinguish between a human communication partner and an AI chatbot.
Man or machine? Hard to say
The majority of those who have already used AI programs also find it difficult to distinguish between humans and machines. 57% of users of such chatbots agree with this statement. Among regular users, the fear of no longer being able to distinguish between a human conversation partner and a software robot is somewhat less pronounced. Every second user who uses an AI system at least once a week shares this fear. And one in five regular users of AI chatbots have actually sometimes forgotten that they are communicating with a machine when communicating with such programs.
The study is based on a representative survey for which 1040 people over the age of 16 across Germany were questioned orally in face-to-face interviews in September 2024.
Turing test passed
If chatbots with AI behave in such a way that they can hardly be distinguished from humans, then they have passed the so-called Turing test. The British computer scientist Alan Turing designed a corresponding test scenario back in 1950. According to this, artificial intelligence is always present when a questioner can no longer distinguish whether a human or a machine is formulating the answers. At the time, Turing predicted that this would be the case around the year 2000.
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