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Chatbots Reduce Health-Related Conspiracy Beliefs Not Because of but Despite Being Perceived as AI

2026-05-07

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Beliefs in conspiracy theories and their resistance to correction pose critical challenges to public health. A potential countermeasure to this is the use of Large Language Model (LLM) driven debates about conspiracy theories. Yet while this approach yields promising results for general conspiracies, its generalizability to the health domain as well as the underlying mechanism for its...

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Literature Corpus work: 45e3026b-4d8f-5932-bfd0-1395be63295f
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9428259/v1

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