- These llm persuasion papers are the ultimate low hanging fruit papers and are fine as long as they are on recruited samples. But as soon as this gets out into real world spaces this going to be the next proliferating audit studies, deception experiments w legislators etc — stuff w real costs.
- The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
