Recognizing AI content through intuition: Short Q&A with Dr. Katharina Fellnhofer and Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf

Whether texts from large language models such as ChatGPT or AI-generated videos and photos, artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role. In a joint study, Dr. Katharina Fellnhofer and Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf investigated how well people are able to recognize AI-generated content with the help of their intuition. The participants were shown images, audio and text. In a short period of time, they had to decide whether the content was genuine or generated by artificial intelligence. It was found that the ability to recognize AI content can be improved through practice. In addition, participants who stated that they were particularly confident in recognizing artificial intelligence performed worse. You can find out more about the study in a new edition of "The Short Question":
https://youtu.be/8X036buT9ZA?si=RehF9FPpzl2Iq4M2

Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf holds the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Finance and Financial Technology. Dr. Katharina Fellnhofer was a guest at the Chair for several months in summer 2024 as part of the Dresden Fellowship Program.

The "Short Question" is a TU Dresden video format in which questions from research at TU Dresden and the world of science have been answered briefly and crisply since summer 2021. All previous episodes of the short question can be found on the TU Dresden youtube channel.