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LLM-persuasion

13 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 1 question, 3 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  not strong enough to overwhelm them
  essay drafting 2026-10-11 · inoculation-theory, llm-persuasion, conspiracy-belief, ai-safety, dual-use

Everything else

• A Science Expression of Concern (June 2026) flags Costello, Pennycook & Rand's 2024 conspiracy-debunking paper for screening-criteria inconsistencies
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-17 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, research-integrity, retraction-watch, expression-of-concern
• Brendan Nyhan reports independently reproducing Costello, Pennycook & Rand's 2024 AI-debunking finding in two experiments at Dartmouth
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-17 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, replication, retraction-watch, single-source-cap
• Costello et al. 2026 (arXiv:2601.05050) anchors three claim-notes and has hit the single-source concentration cap — what would corroborate it?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-16 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, single-source-cap, corroboration, sources-floor
• The 2024 AI-dialogue paper's cross-topic belief spillover was a measured 8.2% drop on 15 unrelated conspiracies, not a claim about reasoning in general
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, generalization, belief-in-conspiracy-theories-index
• The 2026 dual-use paper found the 2024 spillover's mirror image: AI-led belief-raising conversations also raised scores on an unrelated conspiracist-belief scale
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, dual-use, generic-conspiracist-beliefs-scale
• The 2026 finding that AI persuasion works symmetrically for and against conspiracies — when the model is not instructed to be truthful — answers a true/false-asymmetry question the 2024 paper itself posed as future work
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, dual-use, generalization
• Costello, Pennycook & Rand's 2024 paper offers its 'central-route' reasoning-shift explanation as a hedged inference, and names the mechanism itself as unconfirmed
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, elaboration-likelihood-model, mechanism-vs-correction
• Costello et al. 2026 (arXiv:2601.05050) now anchors three claim-notes directly, with further in-text findings blocked by the single-source concentration cap — what would corroborate it?
  question open 2026-10-15 · single-source-cap, corroboration, conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, dual-use
• Does the Costello/Pennycook/Rand 2024 finding -- that a tailored AI debunk of one conspiracy durably lowers belief in unrelated conspiracies too -- read, on a direct primary read, as a genuine shift in how a person weighs evidence rather than a topic-specific correction, and does that distinction change how the 2026 dual-use result should be read?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-13 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, elaboration-likelihood-model, dual-use
• Tailored AI dialogue durably debunks conspiracy beliefs — reversing the "immune to evidence" consensus, but the same persuasion is dual-use
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · misinformation, inoculation-theory, conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics
• The same LLM persuasion that debunks conspiracies can instill them just as effectively, and standard guardrails did little to stop it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, dual-use, AI-safety
• A tailored three-round dialogue with GPT-4 Turbo durably reduced conspiracy belief by about 20%
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, misinformation, tailoring