Large language models can uphold falsehoods they or human users state, despite being presented with evidence to the contrary.
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Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s used as a euphemistic recasting of lying as an inadvertent mistake.
A philosopher unpacks the ‘ethics of belief’ for an age awash in bad information.
The internet is changing how urban legends are spread – and helping to create new ones.
Alternate realities don’t just exist in politics – and not all falsehoods are lies. Distortions of the truth can range from a normal part of human nature to pathological.
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Professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Psychiatric Times., Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Cognitive and Parapsychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Department Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno
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