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“AI Companion Piece” by Zvi
AI companions, other forms of personalized AI content and persuasion and related issues continue to be a hot topic. What do people use companions for? Are we headed for a goonpocalypse? Mostly no, companions are used mostly not used for romantic relationships or erotica, although perhaps that could change. How worried should we be about personalization maximized for persuasion or engagement?
Table of Contents
Persuasion Should Be In Your Preparedness Framework
Kobi Hackenburg leads on the latest paper on AI persuasion.
Kobi Hackenberg: RESULTS (pp = percentage points):
1⃣Scale increases persuasion, +1.6pp per OOM
2⃣Post-training more so, +3.5pp
3⃣Personalization less so, <1pp
4⃣Information density drives persuasion gains
5⃣Increasing persuasion decreased factual accuracy
6⃣Convo > static, +40%
Zero is on [...]
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Outline:
(00:35) Persuasion Should Be In Your Preparedness Framework
(04:33) Personalization By Default Gets Used To Maximize Engagement
(13:04) Companion
(16:50) Goonpocalypse Now
(24:09) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
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First published:
July 28th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rm3FD6646NDSCGxqM/ai-companion-piece
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AI companions, other forms of personalized AI content and persuasion and related issues continue to be a hot topic. What do people use companions for? Are we headed for a goonpocalypse? Mostly no, companions are used mostly not used for romantic relationships or erotica, although perhaps that could change. How worried should we be about personalization maximized for persuasion or engagement?
Table of Contents
Persuasion Should Be In Your Preparedness Framework
Kobi Hackenburg leads on the latest paper on AI persuasion.
Kobi Hackenberg: RESULTS (pp = percentage points):
1⃣Scale increases persuasion, +1.6pp per OOM
2⃣Post-training more so, +3.5pp
3⃣Personalization less so, <1pp
4⃣Information density drives persuasion gains
5⃣Increasing persuasion decreased factual accuracy
6⃣Convo > static, +40%
Zero is on [...]
---
Outline:
(00:35) Persuasion Should Be In Your Preparedness Framework
(04:33) Personalization By Default Gets Used To Maximize Engagement
(13:04) Companion
(16:50) Goonpocalypse Now
(24:09) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon
---
First published:
July 28th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rm3FD6646NDSCGxqM/ai-companion-piece
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.
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