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Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories
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Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories

by MAGGIE HARRISON Image by Getty/Futurism Google just released its much-anticipated rival to Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Bing AI — and it’s already churning out false information, complete with fake citations of news articles that look plausible, but don’t actually exist. While the system, called Bard and currently on a waitlist for early users, is impressive in similar ways...

Why narcissists are more likely than others to believe in conspiracy theories
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Why narcissists are more likely than others to believe in conspiracy theories

by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Components of narcissism proposed by Miller and colleagues and their links to conspiracy beliefs. Credit: Current Opinion in Psychology (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101386 A trio of researchers from the University of Kent, the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Cambridge believe they may have discovered why narcissists are more likely to...

Stress increases beliefs that underlie disorders and conspiracy theories
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Stress increases beliefs that underlie disorders and conspiracy theories

by  Wageningen University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Stress increases the rigidity of the beliefs underlying psychiatric disorders, prejudices and conspiracy theories. Therefore measures aimed at reducing social stress—a basic income or better job protection—could be the most effective approach for tackling problems such as depression, psychosis, discrimination and conspiracy theories. That is the message of a...

How should you talk to friends and relatives who believe conspiracy theories?
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How should you talk to friends and relatives who believe conspiracy theories?

By Marianna SpringSpecialist disinformation reporter IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES You’re dreading the moment. As your uncle passes the roast potatoes, he casually mentions that a coronavirus vaccine will be used to inject microchips into our bodies to track us. Or maybe it’s that point when a friend, after a couple of pints, starts talking about how...

Coronavirus, ‘Plandemic’ and the seven traits of conspiratorial thinking
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Coronavirus, ‘Plandemic’ and the seven traits of conspiratorial thinking

The conspiracy theory video “Plandemic” recently went viral. Despite being taken down by YouTube and Facebook, it continues to get uploaded and viewed millions of times. The video is an interview with conspiracy theorist Judy Mikovits, a disgraced former virology researcher who believes the COVID-19 pandemic is based on vast deception, with the purpose of...

There is no evidence that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory
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There is no evidence that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory

by Eric Muraille, The Conversation The COVID-19 pandemic, which is disrupting our lives and shaking our health systems and economies, is at the root of what Dr. Sylvie Briand, director of the Department of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO), rightly described as an infodemic– the viral circulation of rumours and...

Is Coronavirus Man-Made? Baseless Conspiracy Theories about Its Origin Including China Bioengineering Debunked
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Is Coronavirus Man-Made? Baseless Conspiracy Theories about Its Origin Including China Bioengineering Debunked

10 February 2020, 10:28 pm EST By Urian B. Tech Times Could China Bioengineering be the Coronavirus Origin? Well, there are quite a few posts online sharing this theory without sufficient scientific data to back this up. There are even posts that state that the Coronavirus contains HIV “insertions,” which shows that it could possibly...