Hacker News with Generative AI: Persuasion

AI is more persuasive than people in online debates (nature.com)
A chatbot can be more persuasive than a human opponent when it comes to debating.
ChatGPT shown to be more persuasive than people in online debates (phys.org)
Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, are found to be more persuasive than humans 64% of the time in online debates when adapting their arguments on the basis of personalized information about their opponents, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour.
LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders (arxiv.org)
We directly compare the persuasion capabilities of a frontier large language model (LLM; Claude Sonnet 3.5) against incentivized human persuaders in an interactive, real-time conversational quiz setting.
Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders (arxiv.org)
We directly compare the persuasion capabilities of a frontier large language model (LLM; Claude Sonnet 3.5) against incentivized human persuaders in an interactive, real-time conversational quiz setting.
OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models.
Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds (newyorker.com)
The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight.
Ask HN: How can I learn to "talk a lot and say nothing"? (ycombinator.com)
The Steel Man Technique: How to Argue Better and Be More Persuasive (constantrenewal.com)
Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion (talktomehuman.com)
Debate isn't the best lever to reach the people I want to reach (polotek.net)