{"id":250195,"date":"2024-08-01T16:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/using-an-ai-chatbot-or-voice-assistant-makes-it-harder-to-spot-errors\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:24","slug":"using-an-ai-chatbot-or-voice-assistant-makes-it-harder-to-spot-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/using-an-ai-chatbot-or-voice-assistant-makes-it-harder-to-spot-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Using an AI chatbot or voice assistant makes it harder to spot errors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Voice assistants provide information in a casual way<\/p>\n

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The conversational tone of an AI chatbot or voice-based assistant seems like a good way to learn about and understand new concepts, but they may actually make us more willing to believe inaccuracies, compared with information presented like a static Wikipedia article.<\/p>\n

To investigate how the way we receive information can change how we perceive it, Sonja Utz<\/a> at the University of T\u00fcbingen, Germany, and her colleagues asked about 1200 participants to engage with one of three formats.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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