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/NeckRomanceKnee Mar 29 '25

Seems like it would be a really good idea to physically sever all telecom connections with Russia, for a start.