{"id":8129,"date":"2025-02-24T17:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2025-02-24T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:27:38","slug":"ai-v-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/02\/24\/ai-v-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"AI v Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is very interesting and worth a deeper dive: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:h3t5rqlvuaorq42yckpijirj\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3limrbzpdls2w\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreie6neei3f2duq34yubmirw5fbhyuwcqjke7s5pb6erw7rwhfbled4\"><p lang=\"en\">New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What\u2019s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:h3t5rqlvuaorq42yckpijirj\/post\/3limrbzpdls2w?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kate Starbird (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:h3t5rqlvuaorq42yckpijirj?ref_src=embed\">@katestarbird.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:h3t5rqlvuaorq42yckpijirj\/post\/3limrbzpdls2w?ref_src=embed\">20 February 2025 at 17:00<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very interesting and worth a deeper dive: New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What\u2019s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work. [image or embed] &mdash; Kate Starbird (@katestarbird.bsky.social) 20 February 2025 at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,5],"tags":[1005,89],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-research","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8130,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions\/8130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}