# The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Role of AI Quality Disclosure in Lie Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23143 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.23143/

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- First posted on arXiv 30 Oct 2024.

## Abstract (arXiv)

We investigate how low-quality AI advisors, lacking quality disclosures, can help spread text-based lies while seeming to help people detect lies. Participants in our experiment discern truth from lies by evaluating transcripts from a game show that mimicked deceptive social media exchanges on topics with objective truths. We find that when relying on low-quality advisors without disclosures, participants' truth-detection rates fall below their own abilities, which recovered once the AI's true effectiveness was revealed. Conversely, high-quality advisor enhances truth detection, regardless of disclosure. We discover that participants' expectations about AI capabilities contribute to their undue reliance on opaque, low-quality advisors.