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The AI Memory Gap: Users Misremember What They Created With AI or Without
Tim Zindulka, Sven Goller, Daniela Fernandes, Robin Welsch, Daniel Buschek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11851

The AI Memory Gap: Users Misremember What They Created With AI or Without
As large language models (LLMs) become embedded in interactive text generation, disclosure of AI as a source depends on people remembering which ideas or texts came from themselves and which were created with AI. We investigate how accurately people remember the source of content when using AI. In a pre-registered experiment, 184 participants generated and elaborated on ideas both unaided and with an LLM-based chatbot. One week later, they were asked to identify the source (noAI vs withAI) of t…