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Title: AI is More Persuasive Than People in Online Debates

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/1910215/a...

Chatbots are more persuasive in online debates than people -- especially when
they are able to personalize their arguments using information about their
opponent. From a report: The finding, published in Nature Human Behaviour on
19 May, highlights how large language models (LLMs) could be used to
influence people's opinions, for example in political campaigns or targeted
advertising. "Obviously as soon as people see that you can persuade people
more with LLMs, they're going to start using them," says study co-author
Francesco Salvi, a computational scientist at the Swiss Federal Technology
Institute of Lausanne (EPFL). "I find it both fascinating and terrifying."
Research has already shown that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots can
make people change their minds, even about conspiracy theories, but it hasn't
been clear how persuasive they are in comparison to humans. GPT-4 was 64.4%
more persuasive than humans in one-to-one debates, the study found.

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