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Well with that out of the way we're going to solve a lot of major problems today.

This is going to be a really impactful episode, I believe.

We're starting with solving conspiratorial thinking. I think that's just going to be on its way out after this.

So from the new scientist, they write,

Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their view might be wrong, and they describe how large language model chatbots like those powering chat gPT can reduce people's belief in

conspiracy theories by debating with them and the approach they employ could even teach

people better ways of interacting with conspiracy theorists.

So they got together 2,190 self-admitted believers in conspiracy theories theories and those people provided an outline of the

conspiracy theory they subscribed to and then had a conversation with chat gPT for Turbo and they started out by raiding their confidence in their own conspiracy

theory and then the humans and chatbots offered three contributions to the discussion.

And after just that amount of time,

their belief in the specific theory dropped by about 20%.

And what I immediately thought of was questioning how long it lasted and it says

it lasted at least two months which is pretty good. So have we solved it?

I know like the whole time we were worried about where technology was going and

here it is offering us a playbook. I did think the idea of learning strategies

from chat gbbt was the interesting takeaway because I know sometimes I engage in conversations where I'm convinced there's something that I can say that's going to bring the person in.

So actually having what works or a technique to.

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