People don’t just distrust ChatGPT. They judge the person who uses it

Imagine the following scenario: A university student needs a reading list for an essay on primitive art. In one version of the story, he asks a professor. In another, he asks ChatGPT. He then plans to gather public feedback through short surveys, all unpaid, and strangers are asked how many they would fill out. That experiment is one of eight studies in a paper by Jianning Dang and Li Liu, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Psychologists have spent years documenting “AI aversion,” the tendency to distrust an algorithm’s judgment even when it matches or beats that of a human expert. Dang and Liu asked the obvious next question, which is whether that distrust transfers to the person using the tool.