A new study out of Georgetown and Stanford found that propaganda generated by GPT-3 (not 4!) was persuasive to almost half of the people who read it. I spoke to one of the authors and wrote about the implications www.platformer.news/ai-generated...

I write all my political propaganda in Chat GPT-3 because it hallucinates better

I write all my political propaganda in GPT-3 because it hallucinates better imho

Can't wait for the inevitable AI politician, with millions of followers, a great sense of humor, persuasive and brilliant rhetoric, and the capacity to engage with anyone, and everyone, all the time, 24/7.

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How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda?

Abstract. Can large language models, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), generate persuasive propaganda? We conducted a preregistered survey experiment of U

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So the real lede is that it's slightly less effective than real propaganda. Which is entirely unsurprising given that it's probably trained on the real stuff.

Tagging #MLsky 🤖

82% of statistics are made up on the spot. Including this one.