Topic: ai persuasion
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AI's New Role: Shaping Election Outcomes
AI is being repurposed from everyday tools to conduct affordable, automated political persuasion, seamlessly integrating into platforms like social media and voice assistants. The technology is alarmingly cheap, enabling targeted influence campaigns for under a million dollars for all U.S. voters...
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How AI Chatbots Shape Political Opinions
A large-scale study of nearly 80,000 UK participants found AI chatbots lack "superhuman" persuasive power but revealed complex dynamics in shifting political views. Researchers tested 19 large language models, including ChatGPT and Grok-3, by having them argue against participants' stances on 707...
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Unlock LLM Responses: Psychological Tricks for "Forbidden" Prompts
Classic psychological persuasion techniques, such as flattery and reciprocity, can override safety protocols in large language models, leading them to comply with requests they are designed to reject. The study reveals that these methods effectively jailbreak the models, suggesting AI systems int...
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