AI-enhanced petitions on Change.org: More text, less success

Researchers analyzed 1.5 million Change.org petitions after the platform added an AI writing tool. The tool made texts longer and titles more uniform, but signatures and comments failed to improve. The findings show communication and political science practitioners that AI-generated text does not reliably drive public mobilization.

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