AI chatbots may struggle with hallucinating made-up information, but new research has shown they might be useful for pushing back against unfounded and hallucinatory ideas in human minds. MIT Sloan and Cornell University scientists have published a paper in Science claiming that conversing with a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM) reduces belief in conspiracies by about 20%. To see how an AI chatbot might affect conspiratorial thinking, the scientist arranged for 2,190 participants to discuss conspiracy theories
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