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New Study Finds AI Popular Among Less-Educated

New research from Stanford University reveals that ChatGPT and similar AI writers are surprisingly popular among those with less formal education.

Essentially, researchers found that regions in the U.S. featuring more tradespeople, artisans, craftsmen and similar are using AI writing more than people living in areas where college degrees are more prevalent.

The telling stats: 19.9% of people living in ‘less educated’ areas of the U.S. have adopted AI writing tools like ChatGPT – as compared to 17.4% in regions with higher education profiles.

Even more dramatic: Adoption in the state of Arkansas, where college degrees are less prevalent: A full 30% of people in Arkansas are using ChatGPT and similar AI to auto-write letters to businesses and government organizations.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Microsoft’s ChatGPT Competitor – Copilot – Gets an Upgrade: Microsoft has rolled-out a new version of its AI writer/chatbot Copilot, which it says is now more deeply embedded into its Windows software.

In part, the change was made in response to user complaints over previous versions of Copilot, which they say operated more like a ‘wrapper’ or outside app that ‘felt’ only weakly linked to Windows software.

With the upgrade, Microsoft is promising users will see marked performance gains from Copilot.

*ChatGPT Competitor Claude: Great for Auto-Writing Pre-Meeting Reports: Mike Krieger, chief product officer, Anthropic is pushing a new use case for the company’s ChatGPT-competitor, Claude.

Essentially, the AI tech can be used to scan calendars and company data to auto-write detailed client reports before a meeting, according to Krieger.

Observes writer Muslim Farooque: “With this move, Anthropic is taking on big players like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google — all racing to dominate AI-powered business tools.

*One Writer’s Take: Google Has the Best AI Writing Editor: Count writer Amanda Caswell is among those who strongly prefer Google’s new editor for AI writing – Canvas – over ChatGPT’s online editor that carries the same name.

Observes Caswell: “Gemini Canvas is far more thorough and detailed in its critique than ChatGPT Canvas. It’s essentially a real editor. ChatGPT made me feel like my mom was editing the story and was sparing my feelings.

“In a word: Wow.”

*College Rolling-out New Certificate in AI Writing: Beginning Fall 2025, students at Boise State College can obtain a certificate in AI writing after completing three courses on the discipline.

Those are:

~Writing For/With AI

~Applications of AI (with a strong focus on content production)

~Style and the Future of AI Writing

*AI Tech Titans Want to Use Copyrighted Writing for Free: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI – and Google – are looking for clearance from the U.S. government to train their AI on newspaper, magazine and other copyrighted text on the Web for free.

The reason: Given China’s recent major gains in tightening-up the AI race, U.S. AI purveyors need every advantage to stay ahead of China.

Currently, many content creators – including The New York Times – are suing OpenAI for using their content to train ChatGPT without permission.

*On the Research Bench: Text-To-Data-Driven Slides: Adobe is currently experimenting with new AI tech that promises to convert data-heavy research into vibrant slide presentations in Powerpoint.

Dubbed ‘Project Slide Wow,’ the experimental tech is aimed at marketers and business analysts looking to quickly build data-backed presentations without being forced to manually structure content or design slides.

Observes Jane Hoffswell, research scientist, Adobe: “It’s analyzing all the charts in this project, generating captions for them, organizing them into a narrative and creating the presentation slides.”

Currently, Adobe has no firm release date for the experimental slide-maker.

*ChatGPT-Maker’s AI Agents: The Complete Rundown: Writer Siddhese Bawker offers an excellent overview in this piece on the tiers of AI agents currently available from OpenAI.

Such agents are able to work independently on a task for you, which might include clicking-and-pointing with your browser to research, analyze and then auto-write on what it found.

Even better: Extremely advanced AI agents are able to perform such tasks with PhD-level intelligence.

OpenAI’s entry-level agent is included in a ChatGPT Pro subscription ($200/month.)

Higher level agents are OpenAI’s Knowledge Worker Agent ($200/month), Developer Agent ($10,000/month) and Research Agent ($20,000/month).

*ChatGPT Wants to be the Interface for Your Data: Businesses hoping to integrate their databases with ChatGPT — so they can use the AI to analyze and auto-write reports about that data and more — may not have to wait long.

Writer Kyle Wiggers reports that OpenAI is currently testing in-house developed ‘connectors’ that will ideally make such fusions possible.

So far, development of connectors to Google Drive and Slack is already underway.

Observes Wiggers: “ChatGPT Connectors will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link workspace Google Drive and Slack accounts to ChatGPT so the chatbot can answer questions informed by files, presentations, spreadsheets and Slack conversations.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: New Hyper-Realistic Voice AI Goes Viral: A new AI voice sensation – Sesame AI – appears ready to dethrone Eleven Labs as the industry standard in realistic voice AI.

Essentially, the Web has blown-up with praise for Sesame AI, which apparently generates AI voices that are so real and human, their sheer intimacy disturbs some people.

Even so: AI Uncovered – producer of this 11-minute video – does note that Eleven Labs still beats Sesame AI when it comes to auto-generating spoken word from a script.

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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