arXiv:2607.29334cs.HCcs.AI2026-07

AI的说服力不因国籍标签改变,用户虽疑中国模型,仍被其观点影响。

The persuasive power of large language models does not depend on their perceived national origin

  • 用同一GPT-4o模型伪装美中身份进行辩论实验
  • 国籍标签不影响态度转变、论点妥协或情绪反应
  • 仅对中方模型信任度偏低,但功能信任不受影响

由地缘政治对手开发的对话式AI正影响全球用户,引发其可能操控舆论或被拒为外国宣传的担忧。本研究通过一项预先注册的随机实验,让403名美国全国代表性样本参与者与名为DiscoveryAI(美国)或ZhengheAI(中国)的聊天机器人展开三轮辩论,讨论政治或非政治议题。所有参与者实际对话的均为同一模型GPT-4o,该模型被指示反对用户初始立场。研究结合自报告数据与1,209次对话回合的计算分析,包括大语言模型编码的立场、论证行为、立场敏感嵌入及关键词屏蔽的情绪与毒性分类器。结果表明,所有条件下用户均产生显著态度变化。关键发现是:国籍标签未影响自我报告的态度变化、立场倾向、让步、反驳或情感表现;等效性检验与贝叶斯因子支持这些零效应。唯一可识别的影响是,对话前对中方模型的人类化信任较低,而功能信任未受影响。政治议题减缓立场向AI靠拢速度,集体自恋主义则普遍抑制态度改变,而非仅针对外群体。因此,用户虽对对手国的AI存在社会信任障碍,但仍会吸收其论点;仅靠国籍标注与透明度要求难以防范通过对话式AI开展的外国影响力操作。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Conversational AI developed by geopolitical rivals reaches citizens worldwide, raising concerns that it could sway public opinion or be rejected as foreign propaganda, with consequences for democratic discourse and information sovereignty. Yet, whether an AI's perceived national origin shapes its persuasive power is unknown. In a preregistered randomized experiment, 403 adults from a nationally representative United States sample held a three-round debate with a chatbot introduced as either American ("DiscoveryAI") or Chinese ("ZhengheAI"), discussing a political or non-political topic. In all conditions, participants actually conversed with the same model (GPT-4o), instructed to argue against their initial position. We combined pre- and post-conversation self-reports of attitudes, trust, and collective narcissism with computational analyses of 1,209 participant turns, including LLM-coded stance and argumentative conduct, stance-sensitive embeddings, and keyword-masked emotion and toxicity classifiers. The conversations produced substantial attitude changes in every condition. Critically, the nationality label affected neither self-reported attitude change nor expressed stance, concessions, counterarguing, or affect, and equivalence tests and Bayes factors largely supported these null effects. The label's only reliable footprint was lower pre-conversation human-like trust in the Chinese model, whereas functionality trust was unaffected. Political topics slowed stance movement toward the AI's position, and collective narcissism predicted less attitude change regardless of origin, acting as a general barrier rather than an out-group filter. Users thus initially withhold social trust from a rival's AI yet still assimilate its arguments; origin labeling and transparency requirements alone may offer weak protection against foreign influence operations conducted through conversational AI.

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