Artificial intelligence claims more convincing than people. According to a new study by Swiss researchers, the AI model GPT-4 in online debates in 64.4 percent of the cases is convincing than human discussion partners.
Only if the personal data has the discussion partners such as age, level of education, gender or political attitude.
Without this information, the conviction of the AI is at the same level as that of its human opponents, according to the study, which was published on Monday in the magazine “Nature Human Behavior”. The research team led by Francesco Salvi of the Federal Technical University in Lausanne (EPFL) had fought around 900 people from the US in structured online debates against other people or against GPT-4.
The discussions were about sociopolitical controversy. This included, for example, the question of whether the United States should prohibit fossil fuels, whether social media do people or whether the rich should pay more taxes. In some cases, human and digital demographic information about their opponents who have been received in others have received.
Take threats seriously
Show the results: as soon as GPT -4 knows who is speaking with, it effectively adjusts his argument – and it becomes much more convincing. With personalized arguments, GPT-4 was 64.4 percent more successful than people. Without this data, the conviction of the AI was at eye level with that of people.
“We believe that online platforms and social media seriously consider such threats and implement their efforts to implement measures to limit the spread of AI-driven conviction strategies,” the researchers wrote in the study.
The published study is not related to the Reddit study of researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH), who led too much criticism last month. UZH researchers had several months of answers to contributions to contributions to the Reddit debate platform as part of a hidden study. This led too much unrest at the Reddit community.
Source: Krone
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