"Conspiracy thinking is also a trap because it contains feedback loops of positive reinforcement. If you reject authoritative sources of information as part of a conspiracy, then you will likely reject any information that can disprove the conspiracy. Any information that contradicts the conspiracy, or lack of information that would prove the conspiracy, are part of the conspiracy."
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Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.…
"Conspirituality is a kind of crowd-sourced knowledge, where the spread of a belief is taken to be support for its content."
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/wellness-right-wing-conspiracy-conspirituality-b27…
NYT: They asked an A.I. chatbot questions. The answers sent them spiraling. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html (archived at
This should not be surprising for anyone who knows how LLMs work but holy shit is this scary!
The article is about regular people whose conspiracy beliefs were encouraged by #ChatGPT.
I think the fact that humans are lonelier than ever makes it easy to prey on a large amount of vulnerable people, which is why #LLM
A heady throng of tech billionaires, ministers, corporate titans and the king of the Netherlands have convened in Sweden for the 71st Bilderberg meeting
– the publicity-shy annual policy conference that has long sustained conspiracy theorists
– hosted this year by the fabulously wealthy Wallenberg family.
The four days of transatlantic talks are taking place at the swanky Grand hotel,
which is owned, like so much else in Sweden, by the Wallenbergs.
The Swedis…
In Texas a child is conceived in the fleeting moment between way too drunk and not drunk enough.
BREAKING: FBI Arrests Riot Supplier, Charges Conspiracy (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/12/breaking-fbi-arrests-riot-supplier-charges-conspiracy-n3803719
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p59#a250612p59
InterActHuman: Multi-Concept Human Animation with Layout-Aligned Audio Conditions
Zhenzhi Wang, Jiaqi Yang, Jianwen Jiang, Chao Liang, Gaojie Lin, Zerong Zheng, Ceyuan Yang, Dahua Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09984