DebunkBot's debunking effect was equally effective when participants were told they were speaking with a human expert rather than an AI.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by peer-reviewed PNAS Nexus study (Costello, Pennycook, Rand et al.) which directly tested AI vs. human-expert framing and found no significant difference (p > 0.25), corroborated by MIT Technology Review coverage of the same research. [tier=silver indep_score=0.925 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Chatbots are surprisingly effective at debunking conspiracy theories (seed:technology_and_ai)
- https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/11/pgaf325/8285733 (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12578366/ (corroboration)