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A message written with AI help can land better than one written alone — recipients report feeling more understood, not less.

AI-generated messages made recipients feel more heard than human-generated messages

Yidan Yin, Nan Jia, Cheryl Wakslak (2024). AI can help people feel heard, but an AI label diminishes this impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(14), e2319112121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2319112121

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The moment someone believes AI was involved, that advantage reverses.

recipients felt less heard when they realized that a message came from AI (vs. human)

Yidan Yin, Nan Jia, Cheryl Wakslak (2024). AI can help people feel heard, but an AI label diminishes this impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(14), e2319112121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2319112121

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The penalty attaches to suspicion rather than to the writing itself: the same message is judged more harshly once AI is suspected.

people are evaluated more negatively if they are suspected to be using algorithmic responses

Jess Hohenstein, René F. Kizilcec, Dominic DiFranzo, et al. (2023). Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 5487. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30938-9

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