Credit and blame for AI–generated content: Effects of personalization in four countries D. Earp, Brian Porsdam Mann, Sebastian Liu, Peng Rodríguez Hannikainen, Ivar Allan Ali Khan, Maryam Chu, Yueying Savulescu, Julian credit–blame asymmetry generative artificial intelligence large language model Generative artificial intelligence (AI) raises ethical questions concerning moral and legal responsibility—specifically, the attributions of credit and blame for AI-generated content. For example, if a human invests minimal skill or effort to produce a beneficial output with an AI tool, can the human still take credit? How does the answer change if the AI has been personalized (i.e., fine-tuned) on previous outputs produced without AI assistance by the same human?We conducted a preregistered experiment with representative sampling (N = 1802) repeated in four countries (United States, United Kingdom, China, and Singapore).We investigated laypeople’s attributions of credit and blame to human users for producing beneficial or harmful outputs with a standard large language model (LLM), a personalized LLM, or no AI assistance (control condition). Participants generally attributed more credit to human users of personalized versus standard LLMs for beneficial outputs, whereas LLM type did not significantly affect blame attributions for harmful outputs, with a partial exception among Chinese participants. In addition, UK participants attributed more blame for using any type of LLM versus no LLM. Practical, ethical, and policy implications of these findings are discussed. 2025-01-15T08:06:14Z 2025-01-15T08:06:14Z 2024-11-25 journal article D. Earp, B. et. al. AnnNYAcad Sci. 2024;1542:51–57. [https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15258] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/99171 10.1111/nyas.15258 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Wiley Online Library