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Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won’t corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker.Conspiracies are sometimes real. The Watergate break-in is …
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Part of Kamala Harris’s strategy during Tuesday night’s debate was to bait Donald Trump into talking about himself and his grievances instead of discussing the issues cogently. The strategy was particularly effective because Harris not only got under his skin and off the talking points his advisors …
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Cambridge, MA, Sept. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Have you ever tried to convince a conspiracy theorist that the moon landing wasn’t staged? You likely didn’t succeed, but ChatGPT might have better luck, according to research by MIT Sloan School of Management professor David Rand and American …
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In a new study, many people doubted or abandoned false beliefs after a short conversation with the DebunkBot.Shortly after generative artificial intelligence hit the mainstream, researchers warned that chatbots would create a dire problem: As disinformation became easier to create, conspiracy …
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Have you ever tried to convince a conspiracy theorist that the moon landing wasn’t staged? You likely didn’t succeed, but ChatGPT might have better luck, according to research by MIT Sloan School of Management professor David Rand and American University professor of psychology Thomas Costello, who …
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Share In 2024, online conspiracy theories can feel almost impossible to avoid. Podcasters, prominent public figures, and leading political figures have breathed oxygen into once fringe ideas of collusion and deception. People are listening. Nationwide, nearly half of adults surveyed by the polling …
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This funny line is from The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists, a forthcoming book by the political writer David Harsanyi. The Rise of BlueAnon is one of the most important political books of the decade. It’s also one of the saddest, exploring how a …
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Astronauts walked on the moon.There aresome people who don’t believe that. This and other conspiracy theories are very real, important and hard-to-shake beliefs for the people who swear by them. But people might budge on these beliefs, at least according to a new study from American psychologists …
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Then it was time for the one-on-one dialogues with the chatbot, which the team programmed to be as persuasive as possible. The chatbot had also been fed the open-ended responses of the participants, which made it better to tailor its counter-arguments individually. For example, if someone thought …
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Know someone convinced that the moon landing was faked or the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax? Debating with a sympathetic chatbot may help pluck people who believe in those and other conspiracy theories out of the rabbit hole, researchers report in the Sept. 13 Science. Across multiple experiments …
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