AI systems out-persuade expert humans(arxiv.org)
2 pointsby Gaishan8 hours ago1 comment
  • Gaishan7 hours ago
    "We therefore hypothesized that AI’s throughput advantage allows it to pack conversations with more fact-checkable claims than human persuaders can, and that this is what drives its persuasive edge.

    This “fact-density” account predicts that (i) constraining AI should selectively reduce persuadees’ perception of AI’s informational contribution to the conversation rather than non-informational features such as empathy or enjoyment, and (ii) fact density should predict persuasive impact across human and AI conditions alike."

    • AnimalMuppet7 hours ago
      I wonder if this relates to the "firehose of falsehood" technique. If you hit them with 10x more claims than they can actually check, it makes it look more true, and it's safe, because they're not going to have the time/energy/patience to do all that checking.