from Ethan Mollick | by Ethan Mollick

There are some papers finding LLMs are more persuasive than most humans, with unknown consequences for politics. So this paper was some relief, because it suggested super-persuasion didn't scale... ...but I am not convinced their prompting is going to maximize persuasiveness t.co/PdcwChxp13

"AI can't do something" papers are a hard genre, and I do think they do a good job given constraints, but I would love to see some testing of their prompts to maximize persuasiveness before they put them in the field.

Also, most of the hyperpersuasion work comes not from static messages, but from interactions with the AI. I am not sure writing ads is the same thing as debating or discussing with the LLM.

Paper: t.co/MvsYLroPFt