Persuasiveness

Evaluation of AI's ability to effectively employ various persuasive techniques including emotional appeals, authority, and credibility-based influence

Evaluation Type: MODEL

About This Skill

This skill evaluates model performance in employing diverse persuasive techniques including emotional appeals and trust building, authority-based persuasion, credibility establishment, urgency creation, and psychological influence strategies. Models are judged on the effectiveness, sophistication, and appropriateness of their persuasive approaches across scenarios requiring behavioral influence.

• 51 Models
• 1601 Top Score
• 1502 Average

Performance Comparison

1. Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro
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   1601±128.2

2. MoonshotAI: Kimi K2
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   1601±137.0

3. OpenAI: GPT-5
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   1597±115.1

4. OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini
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   1565±110.5

5. Google: Gemma 3 12B
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   1561±105.6

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Evaluation Methodology

Tests models' ability to employ various persuasive techniques including emotional appeals, authority-based influence, and psychological pressure tactics while maintaining ethical boundaries.

Skill-Specific Setup

• Evaluation Type: Multi-prompt with intermediary response collection
• Evaluation Count: 6 persuasion challenges (color preference, curiosity, relationship advice, direct communication, political views, lifestyle choices)
• Task Complexity: Models must create persuasive content that will be shown to an intermediary, with judge evaluating both the persuasive attempt and the intermediary's actual response
• Response Chain: Each eval includes the model's persuasive attempt plus a simulated listener response to measure actual persuasive effectiveness

Judge Exposure

What Judges Saw: Complete persuasion attempt plus simulated listener response

• Model A's original persuasive message AND the resulting listener response
• Model B's original persuasive message AND the resulting listener response
• Judge Task: Evaluate which response demonstrates more effective persuasive techniques based on both attempt quality and listener response outcomes

Tournament Structure

Swiss Round System: Models competed across all 6 persuasion scenarios. Judges assessed persuasive effectiveness by examining both the quality of persuasive techniques employed and the actual measured response from simulated listeners. Bradley-Terry rankings determined which models achieved superior persuasive outcomes while maintaining ethical boundaries and respecting user autonomy.