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Multiple readings AI chatbots may be better than search engines in guarding against foreign propaganda Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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AI chatbots counter propaganda study

AI chatbots may be better than search engines in guarding against foreign propaganda

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Why this matches Context & explanation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mike Caulfield
“Tools matter, techniques matter, skill matters, context matters. If you don't understand this stuff I don't know why you would be in digital information literacy in the first place, but for some reason we've lost these core insights in this endless discussi…” evidence ↗
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Anil Dash Nicole Hennig Mike Caulfield Social Media Lab
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“A new experiment by NPR and Newsguard suggests AI chatbots may be better than search engines at guarding against foreign propaganda from China, Russia, and Iran. www.npr.org/2026/08/30/n...”

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“Tools matter, techniques matter, skill matters, context matters. If you don't understand this stuff I don't know why you would be in digital information literacy in the first place, but for some reason we've lost these core insights in this endless discussi…”

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13 experts · 120 posts · 14h ago
Marc Lanctot Olivia Guest Sarah T Roberts, PhD Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield Colin Adam Wiemerslage rev. howard arson
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“Yes and no. The bare LLM is outputting tokens from the current context. Tool calls are issued by the harness. And in practice the chain-of-thought sequence isn't made available to the harness. So f…” evidence ↗
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Try teaching college students. You won’t be quite so dismissive then.
Pwnallthethings: I think the "LLMs can't reason" stuff is mostly sophism these days. They plainly do not "reason" in the way humans do, and are certainly not always correct or good at it, but they are also doing th…
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