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Want Better GenAI Results' Try Speed Bumps
Generative AI has vast potential to augment our work, now and in the future, but there’s a very real danger of human workers ceding too much control to machines and becoming complacent about mistakes. Maintaining a “human in the loop” is often touted as the antidote to catching errors, but MIT senior lecturer and research scientist Renée Richardson Gosline says that people frequently overestimate their ability to find flaws in GenAI-produced content.
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