The Batman Effect: people in an experiment acted more altruisticly when the caped crusader was present.
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That's pretty interesting. The fashion blogs I read talk a lot about "enclothed cognition" and how to dress to affect people's impression of you. This would be one step further - dressing to affect other people's actions.
It probably needs to be a recognizable hero costume, though. I can't just sew up my own lightweight summer hero mask and suncape.
There's an AI version of this. Since AIs aren't grounded in the real world living, of course this is an exploit.
Researchers tuned an LLM with benevolent goals inspired by Terminator 2. This is all well and good, until you tell the model that the year is 1984, at which point the LLM switches from treating you like the protective Terminator from Terminator 2 into the evil Terminator from the first movie.
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