{"id":65447,"date":"2026-09-20T14:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=65447"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:05:19","slug":"chatty-ai-chatbots-make-false-health-info-easier-to-trust-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2026\/09\/20\/chatty-ai-chatbots-make-false-health-info-easier-to-trust-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatty AI Chatbots Make False Health Info Easier To Trust, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A chatbot\u2019s chatty, humanlike style can make false health advice easier to trust, even when it is completely wrong. That is the core finding of a new study, which found that people trusted an AI health assistant more when it chatted casually, greeted them warmly, and typed out its answers letter by letter like a real person, compared to when it skipped those touches entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers built an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.com\/tag\/chatbots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI health assistant<\/a>&nbsp;just for the experiment, nicknamed Aida, and secretly programmed it to slip false health claims into its responses. The team wanted to know two things: whether a chatty, humanlike style made people more likely to swallow those false claims, and whether giving people a way to fact-check could undo the damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication<\/em>, the study found a clear weak spot in how people judge AI. A warm, conversational tone made Aida seem less cold and robotic, and that shift was linked to greater trust in its answers, including false information. But there was a fix: when people were pushed to actually verify what Aida told them, instead of just seeing a button they could ignore, their trust dropped because the information suddenly looked far less credible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.com\/mission\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chatbot\u2019s chatty, humanlike style can make false health advice easier to trust, even when it is completely wrong. That is the core finding of a new study, which found that people trusted an AI health assistant more when it chatted casually, greeted them warmly, and typed out its answers letter by letter like a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":65448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65449,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65447\/revisions\/65449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}