Chatting with ChatGPT found to soften beliefs of conspiracy theorists
conspiracy theorists, believing some of the most deeply entrenched conspiracies, such as those involving the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study has found. A team, including researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, designed the AI-model ChatGPT to be highly persuasive and engage participants in tailored dialogues, such that participants' conspiratorial claims were factually rebutted by the chatbot.
For this, the researchers leveraged advancements in GPT-4, the large language model powering ChatGPT, that «has access to vast amounts of information and the ability to generate bespoke arguments.» A form of artificial intelligence, a large language model is trained on massive amounts of textual data and can, therefore, respond to users' requests in the natural language.
The team found that among over 2,000 self-identified conspiracy believers, conversations with the AI-model ChatGPT lowered the average participant's beliefs by about 20 per cent.
Further, about a fourth of the participants, all of whom believed a certain conspiracy previously, «disavowed» it after chatting with the AI-powered bot, the researchers said.
«Large language models can thereby directly refute particular evidence each individual cites as supporting their conspiratorial beliefs,» the authors wrote in the study published in the journal Science.
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