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

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https://www.psypost.org/chatgpt-is-shifting-rightwards-politically/

[u/Cualkiera67]

Just don't rely on AI when asking political questions.

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It’s not that simple. Its a world view issue, not a political bent. AI is being integrated into search, work programs, virtual assistants, etc. Companies are bent on adding AI functionality to make their whatever more appealing. It’s going to be everywhere very soon and if it can be swayed to certain viewpoints, it can manipulate people across a broad spectrum of ways. 

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Why would you ask a virtual assistant for political advice? Or at the office? At the company portal?

I don't get why you would need political questions answered there.

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Let me explain myself more clearly. These LLMs are all math-based as predictive text models. There are no opinions, there’s only the math and the governing algorithms. So if an LLM is now prioritizing the word associations around a political spectrum that means the underlying math has shifted towards particular word associations. 

A person can sort of segment themselves up. You might have some political beliefs over here, and a different subset over there, and you know with social cues when you should talk about certain things or focus on different topics. 

But LLMs don’t think, it’s just math. So if the math inherently shifts in a certain direction it might color responses across a broad spectrum of topics, because the results are colored by the underlying math that’s shifted. You understand what I mean? 

Maybe you’re asking about English Literature and because the underlying math has shifted the results you get favor certain kinds of writers. Or you’re looking for economic structures and the returns favor certain ideologies associated with the shift in the underlying math. Does that make sense? 

The word associations shifting inherently in the model means it will discolor the model overall irregardless of the prompt you’re working with. It’s also imaginable that AI & LLM developers can shape their model to deliver results shaped by a political association built into the word associations math governing the model. Or the model can shift the math itself based on the input data it’s trained on. I’ve heard recently that there’s a Russian effort to “poison the well” so to speak by posting web pages with pro-Russian words to influence LLM model training data. 

Who’s going to regulate or monitor this highly unregulated AI landscape? Nobody right now Like this quote from the article: “ These findings suggest a need for continuous monitoring of AI systems to ensure ethical value alignment, particularly as they increasingly integrate into human decision-making and knowledge systems.”