I worry that the persuasion ability may go both ways

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The evidence points to LLMs being good at persuasion. Do we have any evidence that they're less effective at talking people *into* false beliefs?

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Okay, but like the person you're QT'ing as proof for this immediately followed up to explain: "Actually, the AI just made them blame the Jews instead." I feel like that's NOT better? Otherwise, "People stupid enough to fall for FoxNews will also fall for SlopMachines" doesn't seem like news.

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I think that it is good for people to get out of false or conspiratorial thinking, but I am worried about the psychological mechanism at work here that makes people willing to trust the bullshit engine and externalize judgement to a machine instead of trusting researchers and experts

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I'm not saying the term "agent" was chosen as a means to diminish the importance of understanding and protecting our own human agency but I'm also not /not/ saying it.

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