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Research suggest LLM chatbots may be effective against conspiracy theories (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by gari_9812 to c/technology
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The article mentions more research is needed to confirm if the effect is long-lasting, but personally I'm happy someone may have found a good, practical usecase for LLMs.

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[–] dhork 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alternatively, they spend so much of their time listening to bots on the Internet that only other bots make sense to them.

[–] paraphrand 2 points 5 months ago

The ones I’ve seen are trigger happy on labeling anyone who disagrees a bot.

It seems both sides are really into the idea that robots are discussing things with conspiracy theorists.