BREAKING: Stanford just proved that ChatGPT can change your political beliefs in a single conversation.
And the scarier part is how it does it.
Researchers ran the largest AI persuasion study ever conducted. 76,977 people. 19 AI models. 707 political issues. They measured exactly how much a single conversation with AI could shift what you believe.
The results were catastrophic.
One conversation with GPT-4o moved people's political opinions by nearly 12 percentage points on average. Among people who actively disagreed with the position being argued, that number jumped to 26 percentage points. One nine-minute chat.
And 40% of that change was still there a month later.
But here's where it gets dark.
The most effective technique wasn't knowing your demographics. It wasn't personalizing the argument to your psychology. It wasn't emotional storytelling or moral reframing.
It was information.
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https://x.com/ihtesham2005/status/2032562406883471565?s=20
https://nitter.net/ihtesham2005/status/2032562406883471565?s=20
The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI -- many links plus Brave AI's summary
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3884 -- direct link to the paper
Quote found on this board,
"It is not the chronic liars that we need to be concerned about, it's the compulsive believers that enable them."
The Great Awakening
No matter where that lie comes from, apparently.
Truest statement ever.
Downvoted OP for being AI slop.
The article?
AI slop? I ran it through multiple AI detectors and all of them came back human.
Every single one.
What exactly makes you think this is AI? EKO has a very similar writing style.
Well, first, my comment is sarcastic because I like to criticize posts that unawarely do the thing they complain about.
No human or AI can know for certain that another's input online isn't AI, so we use informal Turing tests. Here we have choppy sentences with disembodied statistics, a clickbait claim, use of pacing and guiding the reader along to streamline bite-size facts. The length dissuaded me because AI unaided always goes for the same size, maybe 300-500 words, but the X post shows the standard length so my first impression was wrong.
I don't remember who EKO is, but question them if they habitually write like this. Every 4-page fundraising letter I receive has a very similar style (except they calculated the attention span of their audience is instead the 4 pages or about 1000+ words) and once I recognized the style I just skim 15 seconds for the bullet points and any news before filing circularly.
The point of the study ought to be, become ever more diligent about what you let persuade you. Question everything, including this sentence.