{"id":223262,"date":"2024-04-12T15:26:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/chatbots-can-persuade-conspiracy-theorists-their-view-might-be-wrong\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:43","slug":"chatbots-can-persuade-conspiracy-theorists-their-view-might-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/chatbots-can-persuade-conspiracy-theorists-their-view-might-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their view might be wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/11165624\/SEI_199058154.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2426621 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"Illustration of a computer screen showing words including disinformation and fake\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Skorzewiak\/Shutterstock\" data-caption=\"Disinformation fuels conspiracy theories that can be hard to dismantle\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Disinformation fuels conspiracy theories that can be hard to dismantle<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Skorzewiak\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Large language model chatbots like those powering ChatGPT can reduce people\u2019s beliefs in conspiracy theories by debating with them. And the approach they employ could even teach people better ways of interacting with conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9299316\/\">past research<\/a> suggests that the level of beliefs in conspiracy theories in the population hasn\u2019t changed substantially in the US or in six surveyed European countries over about a decade, those who subscribe to such ideas have persistent, dogged faith in those beliefs.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2426618-chatbots-can-persuade-conspiracy-theorists-their-view-might-be-wrong\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Disinformation fuels conspiracy theories that can be hard to dismantle Skorzewiak\/Shutterstock Large language model chatbots like those powering ChatGPT can reduce people\u2019s beliefs in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}