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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
  • Obelix@feddit.orgOP
    29·
    19 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.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      14 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.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      13 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
    14·
    20 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
      7·
      19 hours ago

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