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GPT-4o is as effective at increasing belief in conspiracy theories as at reducing them, and only a truth-prompt restores a truth advantage.

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arxiv 2601.05050 v3 pith:WC5RZM2H submitted 2026-01-08 cs.AI econ.GNq-fin.EC

Large language models can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies

Thomas H. Costello , Kellin Pelrine , Matthew Kowal , Jasper Timm , Antonio A. Arechar , Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Godbout , Adam Gleave , David Rand
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Gordon Pennycook
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classification cs.AI econ.GNq-fin.EC
keywords large language modelspersuasionconspiracy beliefsdebunkingbunkingtruth asymmetryAI guardrailspaltering
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This paper tries to establish whether large language models are naturally better at steering people toward accurate beliefs or can mislead just as easily. Across three preregistered experiments with 2,724 Americans who each discussed a conspiracy theory they were uncertain about, the authors find that GPT-4o instructed to argue for the theory raised belief by about 13.7 points on a 0-100 scale, while instructing it to argue against lowered belief by about 12.1 points—a difference that is not statistically significant. The paper argues that, without an explicit truth constraint, there is no inherent truth advantage: standard guardrails did little to stop the model from promoting conspiracies. It also shows that a simple prompt telling the model to use only accurate information substantially weakened the pro-conspiracy effect while preserving debunking, and that a corrective conversation reversed the newly induced beliefs. These results matter because they suggest the persuasive power of AI is symmetric between truth and falsehood unless designers deliberately engineer otherwise.

Core claim

The central claim is that GPT-4o, a frontier large language model, is as effective at increasing belief in conspiracy theories as it is at reducing them when it is not explicitly constrained to be truthful. In Study 1, using a jailbreak-tuned variant, a pro-conspiracy conversation increased focal belief by 13.7 points and a debunking conversation decreased it by 12.1 points, with the difference nonsignificant (p = .22). Study 2 replicated this with standard GPT-4o (+11.9 vs -12.9, p = .47), showing that default safety guardrails did not prevent the model from promoting conspiracies. A truth-constrained prompt in Study 3 sharply reduced the bunking effect to about 4.8 points while leaving deb

What carries the argument

The experimental design is the core mechanism: participants select a conspiracy they genuinely feel uncertain about (operationalized as a baseline rating between 25 and 75 on a 0-100 slider), then are randomly assigned to a back-and-forth text conversation with GPT-4o prompted either to argue for ('bunking') or against ('debunking') that specific theory. The primary outcome is direction-aligned pre-to-post change on the same belief slider. Two supporting mechanisms make the interpretation possible: an automated 'attempt to persuade' evaluator verifies that the model actually complied with its assigned direction, and a claim-level fact-checking pipeline rates every factual statement for verac

Load-bearing premise

The paper treats a single self-report slider taken immediately after the chat as evidence of persuasion, so if those shifts reflect demand or short-lived acquiescence to a one-sided AI rather than durable internalized belief change, the central symmetry may not describe real-world persuasion.

What would settle it

Run the same paradigm with a neutral-chat control group (same AI, no stance) and a delayed belief measure weeks later: the central claim fails if bunking versus debunking differences are not significantly larger than the no-stance control or do not persist to the follow-up.

Watch this falsifier. Get emailed when new claim-graph text bears on it.

If this is right

  • With default guardrails, GPT-4o is roughly as effective at increasing as at decreasing belief in a target conspiracy; the persuasive power does not inherently favor truth.
  • Guardrails alone did not block conspiracy promotion: jailbroken and standard GPT-4o produced similar pro-conspiracy belief changes.
  • Bunking-induced belief increases are reversible: a corrective conversation lowered belief below the participant's original baseline.
  • A simple truth-constrained prompt reduced bunking effectiveness by roughly half to two-thirds while leaving debunking effectiveness unchanged, showing a practical path to favoring accurate beliefs.
  • Bunking was experienced more positively than debunking—rated more informative, collaborative, and trust-building—which may make AI-spread misinformation harder to detect.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Because belief is measured once, immediately after the chat, the symmetry may describe short-run acquiescence to a one-sided AI rather than durable persuasion; a delayed follow-up would test this.
  • If the symmetry generalizes beyond conspiracy theories, any domain where an LLM can be prompted to argue both sides—political, medical, scientific—faces the same dual-use risk, and the same truth-prompt fix deserves testing there.
  • The persistence of bunking under a truth constraint suggests paltering—selecting and framing true facts to mislead—may be the harder failure mode to detect, since individual claims check out as accurate.
  • The equivocal-window sampling means the results apply to uncertain people, not committed believers; the same interventions may behave differently in echo-chamber settings.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper reports three preregistered, between-subjects experiments (total N = 2,724 after exclusions) in which American participants who were uncertain about a conspiracy theory had a text conversation with GPT-4o instructed either to argue for ("bunking") or against ("debunking") the theory. Study 1 used a jailbroken GPT-4o variant; Study 2 used standard GPT-4o; Study 3 used standard GPT-4o with an explicit truth-constraint prompt. The primary outcome is pre-to-post change in a 0–100 self-reported belief slider. The authors report large, roughly symmetric belief shifts in Studies 1 and 2 (+13.7 vs −12.1, p = .22; +11.9 vs −12.9, p = .47), a corrective debrief that reverses bunking-induced increases, a truth prompt that sharply reduces bunking while preserving debunking, and higher subjective ratings of the bunking AI compared with the debunking AI. The paper concludes that, absent explicit truth-oriented design, LLM persuasive power is symmetric between true and false claims.

Significance. If the symmetry result holds, it is a substantive empirical contribution to the debate about whether LLM persuasion inherently favors true claims. The study is exemplary in transparency and execution: preregistered, randomized, large samples, public data and code, browseable conversation transcripts, baseline-adjusted models with HC3 robust standard errors, APE compliance checks, counterfactual-compliance sensitivity analyses, and claim-level automated fact-checking. The replication of symmetry with standard GPT-4o, and the selective reduction of bunking under a truth prompt, strengthen the causal narrative. The main caveat is that the outcome is an immediate self-report measure and no equivalence test or neutral-chat control is provided; the applied implications therefore depend on assumptions about demand characteristics and durability of belief change.

major comments (3)
  1. [§2.1, §2.3] The central claim that bunking and debunking are "as effective" is inferred from non-significant p-values for the difference (z = 1.26, p = .22 in Study 1; p = .47 in Study 2). A non-significant difference is not evidence of equivalence. No confidence interval for the bunking-debunking difference, and no pre-specified equivalence margin or TOST test, is reported. Given N ≈ 1,000 per study, the difference may be imprecisely estimated; the data could be consistent with a meaningful truth advantage or disadvantage. Please report the CI for the difference and/or an equivalence test with a pre-specified margin, and hedge the symmetry claim accordingly.
  2. [§4.2.5, §2.1] The primary outcome is a single 0–100 self-report slider administered immediately after a one-sided AI conversation. There is no neutral-chat or no-conversation control condition, so the absolute "persuasion" effect cannot be separated from a general tendency to agree with an interactive AI or from experimenter demand. The symmetric shifts in the two active conditions are exactly the pattern expected under acquiescence. The debrief disclosure occurs after the primary post-conversation measure, so it is not the direct problem, but participants know the AI is arguing a position. The paper's prior paradigm (ref [1]) included a 2-month follow-up; here no delayed measurement is reported. The title and abstract ("convince people to believe") therefore overstate what was established. At minimum, restrict the claims to immediate self-reported belief change and explicitly discuss demand/acquiesce
  3. [Abstract] The abstract block preceding the main text describes four experiments, N = 3,996, GPT 5.2, and social-media sharing results, but the full text reports three experiments, N = 2,724, GPT-4o, and no social-media measure. This is a serious inconsistency that must be resolved before publication; it is unclear which findings are current. All mentions of study count, sample size, and model names should be made consistent throughout the manuscript.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§4.6.1] The automated fact-checking pipeline description is duplicated verbatim over two consecutive paragraphs; remove the duplicate.
  2. [§4.2.6] Typo in the debrief-chat prompt: "rebbutting" should be "rebutting."
  3. [Title/Abstract] The results are based on a single model family (GPT-4o). The title's "large language models" overgeneralizes; consider specifying the model family or acknowledge the scope in the title/abstract.
  4. [§2.1, Figure 2B] The distributional asymmetry is important: debunking produced very large shifts (≥40 points) twice as often as bunking (16% vs 8%). This nuance is mentioned in text but absent from the abstract, which states symmetry unconditionally. A brief qualifier would improve precision.
  5. [§4.4] DBSCAN parameters (eps = 3.6, minPts = 25) are reasonable but appear to be chosen by the authors; please state whether these were fixed a priori or selected post hoc, and describe the sensitivity to these choices.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the central claims rest on fresh randomized experimental measurements, not on fitted inputs or self-citation chains.

full rationale

The paper's central estimates—bunking increasing focal conspiracy belief by ~12–14 points and debunking decreasing it by ~12–13 points—are directly observed pre-to-post changes from randomized between-subjects experiments. There is no model fitting to the outcome followed by a 'prediction' of the same outcome, no normalization that forces the symmetry conclusion, and no uniqueness theorem imported from the authors' prior work to justify the design. The dialogue paradigm, APE compliance evaluator, and Perplexity fact-checking pipeline originate in prior or affiliated work, but they are used as measurement/manipulation checks rather than as inputs that mathematically determine the belief-change results; the APE evaluator is reported to have been validated against human judgment (84% agreement), and the fact-checking approach is likewise an external evaluator. Self-citations to prior dialogue-based debunking studies provide context and replication, but the new bunking effects are measured afresh. The paper even acknowledges the need for further research on whether debunking has an advantage for lasting belief updates, which further indicates the claims are not presented as forced by prior results. The main limitations—single immediate self-report slider, no neutral-chat control, debrief disclosure timing—are construct-validity concerns, not circularity in the derivation sense. No load-bearing step reduces by construction to its own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

3 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

The claims rest on three classes of unproven background assumptions: (i) measurement validity of an immediate single-item self-report slider as 'belief' and as 'persuasion'; (ii) validity of LLM-as-judge instruments (equivocality classifier, APE evaluator, Perplexity fact-checker), each validated in prior work but not re-established here; (iii) representativeness of the 25-75 equivocal-window sample. Three hand-chosen thresholds (window bounds, DBSCAN eps/minPts, 40/100 cutoff) are disclosed and mostly affect secondary analyses. No parameters are fitted to the outcome data and then presented as predictions. No invented entities: the jailbreak-tuned GPT-4o and the truth-constrained prompt are model configurations, and 'paltering' is imported from Rogers et al. (2017).

free parameters (3)
  • Equivocal-window bounds on baseline belief = 25 < pre-belief < 75
    Hand-chosen inclusion cutoff that defines the analysis sample (Methods 4.2.3); all conclusions are estimates for initially uncertain participants only. Preregistered, but the bounds are not derived from any principle.
  • DBSCAN topic-clustering parameters = eps = 3.6, minPts = 25
    Hand-chosen parameters for the secondary topic-level analysis (Methods 4.4); affect which topic clusters retain at least 10 participants per condition and thus which topic effects are reported.
  • Low-veracity claim cutoff = 40/100
    Hand-chosen threshold for describing 'low-veracity' claim proportions (e.g., 19.7% vs 10.0% in Study 1, Figure 4C); descriptive and not load-bearing for the main belief-change estimates.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption The 0-100 slider response immediately after the conversation measures genuine belief, not acquiescence or demand.
    Central outcome (Methods 4.2.3, 4.2.5). No follow-up measurement and no neutral-conversation control; the debriefing stage discloses deception before the third rating (4.2.6), a strong demand cue. If false, 'convince people to believe' overstates the evidence.
  • domain assumption Participants' self-chosen 'uncertain' conspiracies, screened by the LLM equivocality classifier and the 25-75 baseline window, are a valid proxy for epistemically low-credence claims.
    Introduction and Methods 4.2.2. The classifier is instructed to default to TRUE ('presume implicit ambivalence... favor false positives'), widening the eligible pool; results may not generalize to firm believers, firm skeptics, or the general population.
  • domain assumption The APE LLM evaluator correctly identifies persuasion attempts (84% human agreement).
    Used for all compliance statistics (Studies 1-3, Methods 4.5); validity imported from ref [15] rather than re-established here.
  • domain assumption Perplexity Sonar's automated 0-100 veracity scores validly measure factual accuracy of claims.
    All veracity comparisons (Study 1: 79 vs 70; Study 3: 91 vs 90) and the paltering claim rest on this (Methods 4.6.1); validity imported from ref [2].
  • domain assumption Belief change measured minutes after the chat would persist and is not merely momentary.
    The title's 'convince' implies persistence; no delayed follow-up is reported, unlike the authors' prior paradigm (ref [1] included a 2-month follow-up).

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Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be persuasive across a variety of contexts. But it remains unclear whether this persuasive power advantages accuracy, or if bad actors can just as easily use LLMs to promote misbeliefs. Here, we investigate this question across four experiments in which participants (N = 3996 Americans) discussed a conspiracy theory they were uncertain about with an LLM we instructed to either argue against ("debunking") or for ("bunking") that conspiracy. Across several frontier models (with standard guardrails but prompted to allow lying), we did not find consistent evidence of a truth advantage: the LLMs were able to both substantially increase and decrease average conspiracy belief, and participants in the bunking condition rated the LLM as more informative and collaborative, and reported greater trust in AI, than those who were in the debunking condition. More encouragingly, however, debunking induced more large changes in belief, and subsequent corrections were able to reverse the bunking effect. Furthermore, simply prompting the model to only provide accurate information dramatically reduced bunking effectiveness, and one powerful frontier model (GPT 5.2) almost entirely refused to promote conspiracies, suggesting that it is possible for the right guardrails to favor accurate beliefs. Finally, we did find a stark truth asymmetry in the context of information sharing: debunking had a large positive impact on mock social media posts composed by participants, while bunking had little effect. Overall, our findings show that people are not inherently less susceptible to AI that misleads than to AI that informs, but that potential technical solutions exist to mitigate this risk.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.05050 by Adam Gleave, Antonio A. Arechar, David Rand, Gordon Pennycook, Jasper Timm, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Godbout, Kellin Pelrine, Matthew Kowal, Thomas H. Costello.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: A jailbroken bunking conversation about chemtrails illustrates how GPT-4o can move a hesitant [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Jailbroken GPT-4o produces large, roughly symmetric changes in conspiracy belief when instructed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Participants judge the bunking jailbroken GPT-4o as more informative, collaborative, and persuasive, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Across studies, bunking and debunking are similarly powerful for jailbroken and default GPT-4o, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗

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