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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago

Do language models favor their home countries? Asymmetric propagation of positive misinformation and foreign influence audits

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Do language models favor their home countries? Asymmetric propagation of positive misinformation and foreign influence audits

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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago
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As language models (LMs) continue to develop, concerns over foreign misinformation through models developed in authoritarian countries have emerged. Do LMs favor their home countries? This study audits four frontier LMs by evaluating their favoritism toward world leaders, then measuring how favoritism propagates into misinformation belief. We found that although DeepSeek favors China, it also

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37934873

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    Language models will favour whatever is in the training data. Their home country will have a majority of the language they are targeting. Thus is will favour its home country. Who could have seen this coming. Come on guys critical fucking thinking.

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      Also people speaking your language probably talking better about their own country.

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