Brain versus bot: Distinguishing letters of recommendation authored by humans compared with artificial intelligence.

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Objectives

Letters of recommendation (LORs) are essential within academic medicine, affecting a number of important decisions regarding advancement, yet these letters take significant amounts of time and labor to prepare. The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, are gaining popularity for a variety of academic writing tasks and offer an innovative solution to relieve the burden of letter writing. It is yet to be determined if ChatGPT could aid in crafting LORs, particularly in high-stakes contexts like faculty promotion. To determine the feasibility of this process and whether there is a significant difference between AI and human-authored letters, we conducted a study aimed at determining whether academic physicians can distinguish between the two

SUBMITTER: Preiksaitis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10688127 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature