Authors: P. Schoenegger, F. Salvi, J. Liu, X. Nan, R. Debnath, B. Fasolo, E. Leivada, G. Recchia, F. Günther, A. Zarifhonarvar, J. Kwon, Z. Ul Islam, M. Dehnert, D. Y. H. Lee, M. G. Reinecke, D. G. Kamper, M. Kobaş, A. Sandford, J. Kgomo, L. Hewitt, S. Kapoor, K. Oktar, E. E. Kucuk, B. Feng, C. R. Jones, I. Gainsburg, S. Olschewski, N. Heinzelmann, F. Cruz, B. M. Tappin, T. Ma, P. S. Park, R. Onyonka, A. Hjorth, P. Slattery, Q. Zeng, L. Finke, I. Grossmann, A. Salatiello, E. Karger
Year: 2025
Published in: arXiv preprint arXiv ..., 2025 - arxiv.org
Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Cambridge, University College London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, Modulo Research, Stanford University, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, ETH Zürich, University of Johannesburg
Research Area: Computation and Language
Discipline: Social Science, Artificial Intelligence
This paper compares a frontier LLM (Claude Sonnet 3.5) against incentivized human persuaders in a conversational quiz setting, finding that the AI's persuasion capabilities surpass those of humans with real-money bonuses tied to performance.
Citations: 16
Authors: E Meguellati, S Civelli, L Han, A Bernstein
Year: 2025
Published in: arXiv preprint arXiv ..., 2025 - arxiv.org
Institution: Oregon Health Sciences University, Oregon University of California, Irvine, Han Institute, NYU School of Law, Bernstein Research
Research Area: Advertising, Persuasion Strategies, Human-AI Interaction in Content Generation
Discipline: Artificial Intelligence
LLM-generated advertisements achieved parity with human-written ads in personalization and demonstrated superiority in persuasion using psychological principles, outperforming human ads even when AI-origin detection impacted results.
Methods: Two-part study: First examined LLM personalization based on personality traits; second tested psychological persuasion principles using universal messages across authority, consensus, cognition, and scarcity.
Key Findings: Effectiveness of LLM-generated ads in personalization and persuasive storytelling compared to human-created ads.
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