LLMs Will Plausibly make people Less Conspiratorial

I have known a lot of conspiracy theorists. I spent much of my teens in the American homeschooling subculture, which exposes one to the lunatic fringe of evangelical conservatism.1 I encountered some vanilla conspiracies which hardly register as weird to me. The 2020 election were apparently stolen, vaccines gave all of us the autism.2 Jet fuel, I was oft assured, cannot melt steel beams. But a lot of it was more recherché. FDR bombed Pearl Harbor. The Earth might be flat. Jews were agents of Ialdabaoth, Joe Biden personally ate children. Ask yourself: how does a person come to believe that Joe Biden eats children? Sure, some people have psychosis, but most conspiracy theorists are perfectly sane. Usually, they just have a bad media diet. They get used to believing random people on YouTube or Instagram, and then the algorithm feeds them stuff which is progressively unmoored from reality. But, if a person gets a lot of their information from LLMs, they're liable to ask LLMs about dopey…