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HubSpot post links AI's visible-thinking feature to a "perceived effort" effect, citing 2011 and 2022 studies over Anthropic's official explanation
Two published experiments found that visible effort raised perceived quality when the output was identical. Neither tested a reasoning model, and the claim that labs shipped traces to persuade is inference.
Publishers:blog.hubspot.com
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