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Just the Facts: How Dialogues with AI Reduce Conspiracy Beliefs

Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, David G. Rand

Personalized dialogues with AI substantially reduce conspiracy beliefs. To identify why, we conducted two experiments with U.S. adults recruited online (total N = 2,193) that remov…

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Reducing belief in conspiracy theories as they unfold using large language models

Thomas H. Costello, Nathaniel Rabb, Michael Nicholas Stagnaro +2

The emergence of conspiracy theories in the wake of major events is a significant societal challenge. Here we test whether conversational dialogues with a large language model (LLM…