Post #3864712
2026-07-16 16:07 UTC
@brib@bribstodon.xyz I think there's huge huge variety in what people are getting "out" of quests for info with AI. In some ways, LLM summaries veer toward consensus. So for instance, I have a long-standing dialogue with a patient friend who is an antivaxxer. She has experienced great hardship and betrayal in the medical system. She knows I'm a scientist, and slowly (for months), we have dialogued about this. I have seen her switch her ruminating, anxious searching from web to AI, and AI is...
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@grimalkina@mastodon.social 2026-07-16 16:10
@brib@bribstodon.xyz ...measurably less conspiratorial than the websites and forums she was on before. That has actually given her interesting counterpoints to a lot of the arguments she encounters. I certainly don't think that outcome is inevitable, because I think you could also use AI to convince yourself *of* conspiracy. I find work like this really interesting, because we have always used techniques like journaling or static brochures for persuasion (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/).