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2% -- email response rate difference for state representatives receiving AI-generated vs human-written outreach emails (2023)

2023  · n=7,000  · democracyspot.net

There was only a 2% difference in response rates from state representatives between emails written by humans versus those generated by GPT-3.

  • For some policy topics, response rates remained completely consistent.
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state representatives receiving AI-generated vs human-written outreach emails
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Experiment randomly sent emails written by humans and GPT-3 to over 7,000 state representatives and compared response rates

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state representatives receiving AI-generated vs human-written outreach emails: 2% email response rate difference. Source: democracyspot.net (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gpt3-vs-human-email-response-rate-difference
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