HCL+PrioR mtg (new room). Jocelyn Zhu and David Spitz. Thursday 5/7 12:30pm-2:00pm ET

[Antonio Alonso Arechar]

Good afternoon everyone,

Jocelyn Zhu and David Spitz will present this Thursday (5/7 12:30pm-2:00pm ET; see blurb and below).

Lab meeting will be hybrid, with a zoom link (https://mit.zoom.us/j/91655448125) and in person in ROOM 574 of E62 (100 Main St).

Best regards,

Antonio

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LLM Persuasion in the Wild: Debunking Conspiracies on Truth Social

Building on the success of various survey experiments leveraging LLMs as a tool to durably debunk conspiracy theories and shift political, consumer, and health attitudes, we validate this approach on a naturalistic social media environment (Truth Social). The goal of this experiment is to demonstrate the feasibility of real-time, automated, scalable, and effective debunking on a target audience. We present the experimental pipeline and infrastructure, early field pilot results, and findings from a companion survey experiment. We also plan to discuss the challenge of measuring post-treatment outcomes in field experiments and introduce a method for predicting belief change from conversation data. We welcome input on outcome measures and results framing, as additional field pilots are currently underway.