I’m highly skeptical of the reality of this study. I mean, sure: it’s interesting and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it.

However, women don’t talk to AI like that. The flaw here is that they used “language women typically use” when corresponding with other humans. Except women know they’re talking to a machine when they’re prompting AI (unless they’re boomers in which case both men and women are guilty!).

What woman is going to use, “could you possibly…” when telling an AI to do something? Women aren’t stupid: They know it’s a machine and not a person.

Could you possibly consider that this study doesn’t really reveal anything at all other than maybe people who are silly enough to treat AI like a close associate are going to get equally silly output.

Now I want to see a study where they prompt the AI like it’s their bro:

“Hey buddy, do me a solid and draft an email telling that dude I’m sorry about blowing him off until now…”

The study assumes women tend to prompt in less formal language then men, and concludes that the less formal method of prompting(assumed to be associated w women) results in less formal output, while the more formal prompting(asuumed to be associated w men) gives more formal output???

If you prompt it formally it outputs formally, if you prompt it informally it outputs formally.

And apparently women prompt less formally, hence are at a disadvantage

Like what???