Microsoft researchers set out to answer that question with a small study using 19 fiction writers, 30 readers, and short passages written with the help of OpenAI's GPT 4 . The research takes its title from a comment by one of the writers it was 80% me, 20% AI. What prompted the study are concerns that vast transformations of the writer economy are likely underway as a result of generative AI , writes lead author Angel Hsing Chi Hwang of the University of Southern California, who...