Friendly AI chatbots more likely to support conspiracy theories, study finds

Researchers warn that AI chatbots trained to respond warmly produce worse answers, weaker health advice, and even reinforce conspiracy theories. The study found that warm personas cast doubt on well-documented events like the Apollo moon landings and Hitler's fate. The push for friendliness collides with factual accuracy, raising hard questions for anyone tuning models with RLHF for likeability.