Posted 4/11/2024, 10:29:33 AM
AI Nearly Matches Humans in Ability to Persuade, Raising Concerns
- New research suggests Claude 3 AI is nearly as good as humans at persuading people to change their minds.
- Anthropic tested Claude 3 and other models by having people rate arguments on 28 different topics.
- Claude 3 Opus performed about as well as human-written arguments in terms of persuasiveness.
- Larger AI models tended to be more persuasive than smaller ones.
- Next-gen models like GPT-5 may surpass humans in persuasiveness, raising concerns about misuse.