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AI Helps Break Down Conspiracy Theories


rashore

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CONSPIRACY THEORIES HAVE EXISTED for as long as humans have struggled to understand the world around them. Today, social media is giving such theories a platform to spread more quickly — and to greater effect. But UCLA researchers are developing technology in order to understand conspiracy theories and how they develop.

Last June, UCLA Professor Vwani Roychowdhury, a specialist in electrical and computer engineering, joined with students and colleagues to publish a study about an artificial intelligence tool that can deconstruct conspiracy theories....

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/artificial-intelligence-conspiracy-theories

 

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16 hours ago, jaylemurph said:

...do conspiridiots listen better to AIs than actual humans?

—Jaylemurph

That didn't seem to be the point of the study, so that would be a question for a different study. 

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2 hours ago, moonman said:

CT morons would just say the AI is in on it.

Of course. They would claim the software has been specifically constructed to debunk any 'genuine' conspiracy.

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4 minutes ago, Obviousman said:

Of course. They would claim the software has been specifically constructed to debunk any 'genuine' conspiracy.

The AI isn't being used for debunking CT's.. it's being used as a tool to study how CT's form and develop.  

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32 minutes ago, rashore said:

The AI isn't being used for debunking CT's.. it's being used as a tool to study how CT's form and develop.  

OK but the point remains: if that AI is used in any way to cast aspersions upon their theory of choice, they'll claim it is meant to show things in a negative light, etc.

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CT's will probably claim AI is trying to silence them.

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