When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans
Fresh research is indicating that in online debates, LLMs are much more effective than humans at using personal information about their opponents, with potentially alarming consequences for mass disinformation campaigns.
The study showed that GPT-4 was 64.4 percent more persuasive than a human being when both the meatbag and the LLM had access to personal information about the person they were debating. The advantage fell away when neither human nor LLM had access to their opponent’s personal data.
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