The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find.

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A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on ...

A conversation with a chatbot can shift people's political views—but the most persuasive models also spread the most ...

A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of ...

Despite privacy risks and inaccuracy concerns, people are feeding blood test results, doctor’s notes and surgical reports ...

A short interaction with a chatbot can meaningfully shift a voter's opinion about a presidential candidate or proposed policy ...

The study showed how outsourcing political beliefs to a bot can distort the social construct of having freedom of choice in a ...

Chatbots can measurably sway voters’ choices, new research shows. The findings raise urgent questions about AI’s role in ...

Both papers found that chatbots influence voter opinions not by using emotional appeals or storytelling, but by flooding the ...

General-purpose AI chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)—designed for broad assistance and conversation, not therapy: They ...

To see if conversational large language models can really sway political views of the public, scientists at the UK AI ...