A new study shows that there is a significant statistical connection between “dark” personality traits such as narcissism, psychiatry, and macayolism using more productive artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT for academic assignments.
According to Futurism, a new study examines the darker aspect of artificial intelligence: Who most of all use this technology to cheat and shortcut? A team of psychologists in South Korea with a survey of ۱۴۰۰ Art Student In China, they achieved worrying results.
Students’ abuse of artificial intelligence
This research is based on psychology model “Dark Triad) Performed that evaluates three negative personality traits:
- Narcissism (Narcissism): The desire to be self -esteem and the need for admiration.
- Machiavellianism: The desire to deceive and abuse others to achieve the goal.
- Psychopathy (psychopathy): Lack of empathy and anti -social behaviors.
The results clearly showed that the students who gained higher scores in these three characteristics were more likely to rely on tools such as ChatGpt and Midjourney to do their homework and try to present artificial intelligence as their work.
The study also identified a psychological mechanism for this behavior. According to the findings, these dark personality traits, with Higher academic anxiety And More Were related. This anxiety and delaying things, in turn, leads one to use artificial intelligence as a fast solution and a way of escaping.
In addition, another factor was identified: Materialism. Students who sought foreign rewards and admirations were more likely to use artificial intelligence to achieve these goals.
The authors of this article see the use of artificial intelligence for fraud as a kind of “academic abuse” similar to that of lying and literary theft, and suggests solutions to institutions and universities to deal with it:
- Curriculum Design: Designing homework and projects that are “less prone to literary theft” and artificial intelligence.
- Artificial Intelligence Ethics Training: Schools and universities should seriously teach students about the “moral risks and problems” related to this technology.
- Providing Psychological Support: Given this behavior with anxiety and psychological problems, providing counseling services and psychological support to students can help reduce this phenomenon.
The findings of this study are published in the journal BMC Psychology. Researchers also found in another study that there are 5 % of scientific articles to use artificial intelligence.
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