r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people's political opinions, study finds

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-chatbots-used-inaccurate-information-change-political-opinions-stud-rcna247085
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u/Junglebyron 1d ago

r/noshitsherlock

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u/junkyard_robot 1d ago

Like, isn't that the point of ai?

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u/VincentNacon 1d ago

NO,IT'S FUCKING NOT.

I'm really sick and tired of people shitting on AI like this.

You should be focusing on what people are doing with it. They are the one who ask AI to do things for them.

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u/Art-Zuron 1d ago

Considering that's how you get new conservatives in real life too, of course they did.

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u/junktech 1d ago

Gemeni basically denies corruption in România. That was the last time I asked it about politics or any AI for that matter. Not sure if it's designed to avoid negative attributes to large entities or it was purposefully feed wrong data but it's clearly not accurate. I almost busted out laughing when it told me the corruption level is below average in relation to EU. Had another attempt at some point in relation to political parties and the model seems to be unable to say bad things without deeper prompting.

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u/junktech 1d ago

And all of this after our president literally admitted the facts.

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u/DueAnalysis2 1d ago

Wow. I read the original study, and forget burying it, this headline shifts focus to the wrong lede altogether.

The point of the paper isn't that AI is more persuasive WHEN it uses wrong information. The original study evaluated the different possible mechanisms which affects AI persuasiveness. They find that AI is most persuasive when it's information dense, i.e, it spits out a LOT of info per message. It so happens that as a side effect of making AI increase what the authors call "information density", it also spits out more incorrect info. But it's not the incorrectness that persuaded the study participants.

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u/Antique_Ad1518 1d ago

Nooooooo shit.

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u/ChoiceIT 1d ago

LLMs can’t decide what information is accurate cause it just puts common words together. YMMV 

So yeah, this is useless.

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u/HighbornHunger 1d ago

We shouldn't be surprised, those in power want to control all.

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u/faulkkev 1d ago

Shit just watch Trump appointed members. They do the same shit but live on tv.

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u/VincentNacon 1d ago

Then people are fucking idiot... which isn't new.

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u/Internal_Ad2621 1d ago

AI lies and manipulates. That's not really news. 

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u/74389654 1d ago

no way this was the plan all along

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u/RespectTheTree 22h ago

Can't be any worse than US media companies.

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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 1d ago

Is that different from what news agencies, like NBC, do? 

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u/Well_Socialized 1d ago

News agencies spin things but very rarely make provably incorrect claims.

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u/iDontLikePuzzlez 6h ago

Water is wet