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The Atlantic / Matteo Wong / Sep 3, 2024
“With the entire tech industry shifting its attention to these products, it may be time to pay more attention to the persuasive form of AI outputs, and not just their content… ‘The model hallucination doesn’t end’ with a given AI tool, Pat Pataranutaporn, who researches human-AI interaction at MIT, told me. ‘It continues, and can make us hallucinate as well.’ Pataranutaporn and his fellow researchers recently sought to understand how chatbots could manipulate our understanding of the world by, in effect, implanting false memories.” SC
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