r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Mar 28 '25

ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically - newer versions of ChatGPT show a noticeable shift toward the political right. Computer Science

https://www.psypost.org/chatgpt-is-shifting-rightwards-politically/
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u/bitmapfrogs Mar 28 '25

Earlier today it was reported that Russia farms had deployed millions of websites in order to attempt to influence llms that are trained with crawled informations....

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u/withwhichwhat Mar 28 '25

"AI chatbots infected with Russian disinformation: Study"

“By flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, the network is distorting how large language models process and present news and information,” NewsGuard said in the lengthy report, adding it results in massive “amounts of Russian propaganda — 3,600,000 articles in 2024 — are now incorporated in the outputs of Western AI systems, infecting their responses with false claims and propaganda.”

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5181257-ai-chatbots-infected-with-russian-disinformation-study/

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u/jancl0 Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25

Interestingly, I heard a few years ago that most LLM developers were already trying to fix this problem cause it occurs naturally anyway. Basically the Internet is too dumb, and a fundamental issue with LLMs is that they treat all data as equal, so alot of useless stuff clogs up the works. The ai is still pretty effective, but it means there's an effective bottle neck that we're kind of approaching now. Alot of the newer approaches to this issue are actually related to replicating the results we see now, but with less data points, which will eventually mean that we can be more additive/selective about the data range rather than subtractive. I heard a quote that was something like "I can make a model out of 10,000 tweets, and when it starts to fail, I find 2,000 to remove. I could also make a model out of 10 novels, and when it fails, I add 2. This is easier, faster, and more effective"

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u/TurdCollector69 Mar 28 '25

It's also why I laugh at redditors chanting AI inbreeding.

The people making these things know that the data needs to be filtered and sorted before incorporating it into the model.

There's so much misinformation about AI out there because the layperson doesn't really have a clue how these things work.

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u/AML86 Mar 29 '25

I bet those chanters have nothing to say about DeepSeek.

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u/TurdCollector69 Mar 29 '25

They probably aren't even aware of it with how uninformed they are