AI Chatbots Could Be Used To Convince People That Conspiracy Theories Aren’t Real

September 14th, 2024

Via: Science:

Widespread belief in unsubstantiated conspiracy theories is a major source of public concern and a focus of scholarly research. Despite often being quite implausible, many such conspiracies are widely believed. Prominent psychological theories propose that many people want to adopt conspiracy theories (to satisfy underlying psychic “needs” or motivations), and thus, believers cannot be convinced to abandon these unfounded and implausible beliefs using facts and counterevidence. Here, we question this conventional wisdom and ask whether it may be possible to talk people out of the conspiratorial “rabbit hole” with sufficiently compelling evidence.

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The treatment reduced participants’ belief in their chosen conspiracy theory by 20% on average.

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One Response to “AI Chatbots Could Be Used To Convince People That Conspiracy Theories Aren’t Real”

  1. Snowman says:
    September 15, 2024 at 10:51 am

    They are getting desperate.

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