arXiv AI By Alessandro Trevisan, Harry Giddens, Sarah Dillon, Alan F. Blackwell

The BS-meter: Detecting Politics and Labour through ChatGPT's Language

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The paper investigates the linguistic characteristics of ChatGPT-generated text, comparing it to 1,000 scientific publications and exploring its relation to concepts of ‘bullshit’ in political speech and workplace contexts. By applying hypothesis‑testing methods, the authors demonstrate that a statistical model of bullshit can link the artificial bullshit produced by ChatGPT to the political and workplace functions of bullshit observed in natural human language.

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