Researchers train AI model to respond to online political posts, find quality of discourse improved

Researchers who trained a large language model to respond to online political posts of people in the US and UK, found that the quality of discourse improved.

Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), a large language model (LLM) is trained on vast amounts of text data and therefore, can respond to human requests in the natural language.

Polite, evidence-based counterarguments by the AI system — trained prior to performing experiments — were found to nearly double the chances of a high quality online conversation and “substantially increase (one’s)…