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OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company revealed this
    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      This is exactly what Cambridge analytica / Academi was proven to be doing as early as 2015.

      You don’t need LLM’s to conduct psychological warfare. It was obvious that surveillance capitalism + big data analytics were being used for real time propaganda dissemination back then.

  • bean@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company revealed this in a system card — a document outlining how an AI system works — that was released along with its new “reasoning” model, o3-mini, on Friday.

    • breakingcups@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Notably, it does not appear that they have posted the AI responses, just used the posts as input for internal processes.

  • Obelix@feddit.orgOP
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    9 hours ago

    This basically means that OpenAI has a trained model that is able to change political viewpoints. Which also means that this model is available to the Trump administration.

    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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      6 hours ago

      that is able to

      Have you and I been reading the same /r/changemyview?

      More seriously, the article says nothing of actual efficacy. I don’t think most people are particularly receptive to having their mind changed through direct rhetoric on the internet, it absolutely happens but it’s not nearly as concerning as other polarizing social media behaviors.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      I’ve been using AI as a utility to analyze discussions with other users and to determine who has the objectively better argument. I have it compare fallacies used in both quantity and severity.

      Particularly with Trump supporters it’s no surprise the ratio is usually 3 or 4:1.

      It could be used in this context against AI, too, because the directive isn’t to persuade but to analyze logic.

      • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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        8 minutes ago

        All that means is the left is primarily the populous option, or at least whoever sifted through the training data is predominantly left wing. AI is a statics machine and it will give you the answers it mostly received in training. If the most popular answer fed into it’s training was right wing like in your other answers it would show up more right biased, in other words AI is the ultimate average being and as we all know the average man can be pretty dumb.

        Feel free to run this through your AI to evaluate the truthfulness.