{"id":3165,"date":"2026-04-30T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/study-friendly-ai-chatbots-may-be-less-accurate\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:47:53","slug":"study-friendly-ai-chatbots-may-be-less-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/study-friendly-ai-chatbots-may-be-less-accurate\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Friendly AI chatbots may be less accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"How does a friendlier chatbot respond to a falsehood about the moon landings? <\/p>\n

Last year, researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute began testing five artificial intelligence<\/a> chatbots to see if making them friendly changed their responses.<\/p>\n

Their results<\/a>, published Wednesday in the journal Nature<\/i>, suggest that chatbots designed for warmth are far more likely to endorse conspiracy theories, respond with \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How does a friendlier chatbot respond to a falsehood about the moon landings?
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