persuasion

Study: Chatbots can be talked into wrong answers — and fast

Large language models, the systems behind today’s chatbots, can be pushed to change their answers after just a few lines of persuasive prompting. A new research paper finds that smaller models give in especially quickly, and that a common safety trick — asking the model to state how confident it

AI Persuasion Isn’t Neutral: LLMs Shift Style by Recipient Gender

New research shows that popular language models don’t persuade everyone the same way. Across 13 LLMs and 16 languages, the authors found consistent shifts in tone, appeals, and strategies depending on the recipient’s labeled gender — patterns that mirror well-known gender stereotypes. * Framework tests 19 categories of persuasive language