Post #3864710
2026-07-16 16:11 UTC
@brib@bribstodon.xyz I think this effect probably goes both directions. It's powerfully persuasive in one direction when it's grounded against clinical and scientific consensus; I can easily imagine it being persuasive in the other direction. That is what the psych intervention research is finding so far. Now, what might help? I've spent some time trying to provide that to the patients I know and talk to. For example, a mental model of an LLM as a text & prediction tool helps them, my friend now sees
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@grimalkina@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 16:14
@brib@bribstodon.xyz that *how* she prompts can steer toward an answer. She went from prompts like "why does x happen" or "is fluoride scary" to "tell me if there are two different arguments for x and show me where it comes from" which tends to get her links, which has pulled her out of some conspiratorial thinking. I believe you can get people out of the belief that these are "answer machines"; I have done so with a lot of not terribly "tech" comfortable people.