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An AI chatbot helped Americans who believe in conspiracy theories “exit the rabbit hole” | Nieman Journalism Lab

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The uncle who believes 9/11 never happened. The next-door neighbor who thinks Biden stole the 2020 election. The Nieman Lab editor who’s been known to wonder if aliens really do exist and the U.S. government is covering them up. You probably don’t want to talk to these people and convince them that they are wrong. But what if an AI chatbot could do it for you? That’s exactly what a group of researchers just did. In their peer-reviewed article “Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI,” featured on the cover of Science this week, Thomas Costello of American University, Gordon Pennycook of Cornell, and David Rand of MIT explain how they put 2,190 conspiracy-believing Americans in brief but detailed conversation with the large language model GPT-4 Turbo. Those conversations worked: They “reduced participants’ belief in their chosen conspiracy theory by 20% on average,” the authors write. The effect “persisted undiminished for at least 2 months” and “was consistently o

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