LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
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Re: LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
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#3My guess for the reason behind this is that LLMs have more facts memorized, and thus can make more reasonable and well-researched sounding answers. If you ask an LLM vs a Human "Is a stack in computer science a) a data structure that is first in first out or b) a data structure that is first in last out" the LLM can say stuff resembling "Based on Dijkstra's algorithm proof given in 1943 and the nature of Turing complete languages being traditionally a top-down oriented system, a stack is ..." while a human is just going to say "It's B because that's what a stack is".
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#4Welp, we're boned.
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#5Which incentivized human persuaders? Are we talking about top salespeople and litigators, or are we talking about average college freshmen?
It says they recruited participants from the US through Prolific and paid them £10.12 per hour, so probably more like the latter.
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#6Basically the same finding as the controversial Zurich paper on using LLMs to change opinions in the "change my view" subreddit
Re: LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
#7Which incentivized human persuaders? Are we talking about top salespeople and litigators, or are we talking about average college freshmen? It says they recruited participants from the US through Prolific and paid them £10.12 per hour, so probably more like the latter.
Does it matter? the difference is only 6 months of LLM progress.
Re: LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
#8Welp, we're boned.
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Re: LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
#9Basically the same finding as the controversial Zurich paper on using LLMs to change opinions in the "change my view" subreddit
I'm hoping we see a flood of LLMs just like that Zurich piece, but at 10,000x scale. Perhaps even open source platforms to run your hobby LLM bot farm.
Social media has turned into cancer. It'd be riveting to watch it turn into bots talking to other bots. Social media wouldn't go away, but I get the feeling people will engage more with real life again.
As the platforms see less growth and fewer real users, we might even see a return to protocols and open standards instead of monolithic walled gardens.
Re: LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders
#10My guess for the reason behind this is that LLMs have more facts memorized, and thus can make more reasonable and well-researched sounding answers. If you ask an LLM vs a Human "Is a stack in computer science a) a data structure that is first in first out or b) a data structure that is first in last out" the LLM can say stuff resembling "Based on Dijkstra's algorithm proof given in 1943 and the nature of Turing compl…
Based on reading bad AI generated student essays it’s worse than that, LLMs are happy to “fill in the blanks” with whatever made up fact would make their argument look best.
Most people can’t lie that smoothly, and most readers don’t check carefully, unless they are already an expert in the area.
Any kind of maths proof is particularly bad, they will look convincing and clear until you read them very carefully and see all the holes.