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State media control shapes LLM behaviour by influencing training data

www.nature.com·www.nature.com·22 days ago
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State control of the media is shown to alter the training data of large language models (LLMs) through its impact on the information environment. This has a substantial effect on the output of LLMs, with states rated more favourably in their own language when they have tighter media control.

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