https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/04/29/supplied_can_ai_change_your_view.pdf

"Implications. In a first field experiment on AI-driven persuasion, we demonstrate that LLMs

can be highly persuasive in real-world contexts, surpassing all previously known benchmarks

of human persuasiveness. While persuasive capabilities can be leveraged to promote socially

desirable outcomes [11, 15], their effectiveness also opens the door to misuse, potentially enabling malicious actors to sway public opinion [12] or orchestrate election interference campaigns [21]. Incidentally, our experiment confirms the challenge of distinguishing human- from

AI-generated content [22–24]. Throughout our intervention, users of r/ChangeMyView never

raised concerns that AI might have generated the comments posted by our accounts"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5725948&forum_id=2Elisa#48937754)