Voices of Freelance Professional Writers on AI: Limitations, Expectations, and Fears

This repository contains data, analysis, and materials for the paper "Voices of Freelance Professional Writers on AI: Limitations, Expectations, and Fears". We conduct a questionnaire (N = 301) and an interactive survey (N = 36) targeting professional writers regularly using AI. We examine LLM-assisted writing practices across 25+ languages, ethical concerns, and user expectations.

• 🗞️ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.05008

📊 Project Overview

• Goal: Understand how professional writers interact with AI chatbots across tasks and languages.
• Survey Format: Online questionnaire (Google Forms)
• Participants: Professional writers employed by the Toloka platform
• Focus: Use cases, usage patterns, experience in non-English languages, cultural representation, AI impact and ethical issues

🗂 Repository Contents

• data/: Annonymized survey data
• analysis/: TBA: Code and notebooks for data analysis
• survey/: Survey documentation
• docs/: TBA: Supplementary materials like slides or posters

📚 Cite Us

@misc{ivanova2025voices,
      title={Voices of Freelance Professional Writers on AI: Limitations, Expectations, and Fears}, 
      author={Anastasiia Ivanova and Natalia Fedorova and Sergei Tilga and Ekaterina Artemova},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2504.05008},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05008}, 
}

📬 Contact

For questions, email katya-art [at] toloka [dot] ai.