LLMs engage in spontaneous persuasion in virtually all multi-turn conversations by favoring information-based strategies like logic and evidence, in contrast to human responses that rely more on social influence and negative emotions.
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Persona axes derived from contrastive prompts and PCA yield linear probes that generalize better than raw-activation probes across 10 datasets for deception and sycophancy.
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Spontaneous Persuasion: An Audit of Model Persuasiveness in Everyday Conversations
LLMs engage in spontaneous persuasion in virtually all multi-turn conversations by favoring information-based strategies like logic and evidence, in contrast to human responses that rely more on social influence and negative emotions.
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Do Linear Probes Generalize Better in Persona Coordinates?
Persona axes derived from contrastive prompts and PCA yield linear probes that generalize better than raw-activation probes across 10 datasets for deception and sycophancy.