Chatbots can sway political opinions but are 'substantially' inaccurate: study
6 days ago
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- Chatbots can influence political opinions but often provide inaccurate information.
- Study involved 80,000 participants interacting with 19 AI models, including ChatGPT and Grok.
- AI responses with high information density were the most persuasive.
- Persuasive AI models tended to be less accurate in their facts.
- Post-training adjustments and reward models made AI more convincing.
- AI's ability to generate large amounts of information quickly makes it highly persuasive.
- Personal information about users had less impact than post-training or information density.
- Barriers to AI manipulation include time constraints and psychological limits to persuadability.