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by breadbreadbread
798 days ago
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The term "brainwashing" is so misleading and fear-baity here. Humans are gullible and can be convinced of falsehoods. You have just as much if not more "brainwashing" power than any chatbot. The only difference is that a chatbot can reach more people faster, but we can also inoculate ourselves to the effectiveness of AI by things like "media literacy" and "skepticism". If you know that an AI can be programmed to promote falsehoods (or otherwise fed falsehoods), you can perhaps double check sources that an AI uses to promote their claims. It's not brain control its just media baby |
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The premise of the study implies otherwise. They took a group of "true believers" of conspiracies. Those who are skeptical of mainstream narratives. They were also told they are conversating with AI.
The study notes that these types of beliefs have not been shown to be swayed by other methods as such efforts have previously failed.