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Is there evidence that such soft skills are improving over time? I take as evidence to the contrary the fact that LLM writing has not substantially improved. I don't see that its powers of persuasion has either, whether that's through making strong arguments for a course of action or writing persuasive essays.
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I remember reading about research on using LLM's for political persuasion. It worked well.
There was also research on using LLM's in reddit to persuade, it also worked well.
I'm a physicist, and I will do my own calculations before I buy some solar/batteries in the near future, but I've been using ChatGPT and Claude to come up with potential candidates and ideas/scenarios. There's approximately 0% chance that they are not advertising what their owners are being paid for.
Only the labs knows the truth, but the question as to how many Americans used ChatGPT/Grok/Claude to help them decide how to vote in the most recent election is hopefully going to be something that historians will be able to unearth later.