Poll: People Without a Trusted Health Care Provider Are More Likely to Endorse Vaccine Myths, As Are Those Who Often Use Social Media or AI for Health Information | KFF
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People who don’t have a trusted health care provider are more likely than people with one to believe or lean toward believing several common myths about vaccines, a new KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust reveals.
  • the_wonderfool@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    To the surprise of nobody, people that only get information from sources that validate their own beliefs (in this case social media and corporate LLMs), ends up believing all kinds of hoaxes.

    I would not be surprised to find similar rates among people that only rely on religious figures for health matters.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Yeah, I think that’s definitely only a correlation. They’re both probably caused by lack of critical thinking and poor ability to assess risk.

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Make sense to me. All those charts you see about AI and political bias don’t take into account the fact that this bias would be influenced by the user, can eventually supersede the base instructions*. It’s only a matter of time before the chatbot says, “you’re right about vaccines and the JQ, would you like a bleach recipe?”

    Chatbots might skew liberal in a laboratory setting, but they are built for sycophancy towards their userbase, not the labs.

    * Insultingly, chatbot companies call this natural and unavoidable process “jailbreaking” as if it’s not inherent to their product.

  • m0nt@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Explains a lot about why every person I met that religiously use LLMs for personal use have been bumbling fucking morons.