The arrival of Artificial intelligence and its use has been associated with everything from fear of judgment and loneliness to misogyny and illiteracy.
It has reported a baffling array of outcomes that’s often alarming and still really difficult to categorize them.
Researches Revealed Alarming Link Between AI Use and Psychopathy
But now, it has gone to another level as in a recent study which is published in the journal BMC Psychology, South Korean scientists surveyed 504 college-level Chinese art students and found that the ones who exhibited higher rates of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism were more likely to rely on ChatGPT and the AI art generator Midjourney than their better-balanced peers.
This paper was published by psychology researchers Jinyi Song of South Korea’s Chodang University and Shuyan Liu of Baekseok University.
In this paper, they have framed AI use among art school students as akin to academic misconduct behaviors like cheating, lying, and plagiarism.
Moving ahead, the researchers explained that these behaviors are also associated with the aforementioned “dark” personality traits, which are drawn from the “Dark Triad” model used to assess negative personality characteristics.
How Did This Happen?
They have drawn these findings from six art-focused universities in Sichuan province which represent a diverse set of disciplines including visual art, music, drama, and dance.
Further in their studies, the researchers found that students who scored higher for dark personality traits were more likely to try to pass AI-generated work off as their own.
So far this is a major problem in the world at large, and especially so in the arts and academia.
Interestingly, the same students who scored highly on the “Dark Triad” questions were, as the paper explains, also more anxious about their academic performance and more likely to procrastinate on assignments, which led to greater reliance on AI tools for their schoolwork.
Moving ahead, the paper talks about seeing the similar trends surrounding student procrastination and AI in the past as well.
While measuring for the traditional “Dark Triad” traits, these researchers also asked survey questions about how materialistic the survey cohort was.
In response to this they found that those who scored higher for materialism, or for whom external rewards and praise were a motivating factor, were also more likely to use AI to achieve those ends.
Finally, the authors of the paper suggested that colleges and universities should redesign their curriculum so that assignments would be “less susceptible to plagiarism” and AI mimicry.
Moreover, the schools should figure out better ways to teach students about the “associated hazards and ethical quandaries” surrounding AI, the researchers added, as others before them have also suggested.
This would hopefully help them in realising that using the nascent technology as a shortcut or crutch is counterintuitive to education.
