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Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes? (theconversation.com)

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[–] halm 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

According to that research mentioned in the article, the answer is yes. The big caveats are

that you need to get conspiracy theorists to sit down and do the treatment. With their general level of paranoia around a) tech, b) science, and c) manipulation, that not likely to happen.
you need a level of "AI" that isn't going to start hallucinating and instead enforce the subjects' conspiracy beliefs. Despite techbros' hype of the technology, I'm not convinced we're anywhere close.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not even fundamentally possible with the current LLMs. It's like saying "Yes, it's totally possible to do that! We just need to invent something that can do that first!"

[–] halm 5 points 5 days ago

I think we agree on the limited capability of (what is currently passed off as) "artificial intelligence", yes.

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