Hacker News with Generative AI: Persuasion

This article won’t change your mind (theguardian.com)
It may seem paradoxical to write this in an opinion piece. But it needs saying: arguments alone have no meaningful effect on people’s beliefs. And the implicit societal acceptance that they do is getting in the way of other, more effective forms of political thinking and doing.

Politics, Persuasion, Social Change, Opinion

8 points by lr0 54 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Artificial Intelligence, Persuasion, Online Debates

8 points by isaacfrond 60 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Generative AI, Persuasion, Artificial Intelligence, Social Science

20 points by pseudolus 60 days ago | 3 comments

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.

Artificial Intelligence, Persuasion, Human-Computer Interaction

140 points by flornt 62 days ago | 116 comments

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.

Generative AI, Language Models, Persuasion, Human Behavior

4 points by randomdrake 63 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Artificial Intelligence, Reddit, Persuasion, Language Models

7 points by vinni2 168 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Cognitive Psychology, Persuasion, Human Behavior, Argumentation

95 points by rbanffy 257 days ago | 86 comments

Ask HN: How can I learn to "talk a lot and say nothing"? (ycombinator.com)

Communication, Public Speaking, Persuasion

26 points by tazu 363 days ago | 40 comments

The Steel Man Technique: How to Argue Better and Be More Persuasive (constantrenewal.com)

Argumentation, Persuasion, Communication, Critical Thinking, Cognitive Biases

42 points by squircle 378 days ago | 72 comments

Show HN: Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion (talktomehuman.com)