Governments may shape what AI chatbots say by shaping the web they learn from, new Nature study finds (IMAGE)

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Governments may shape what AI chatbots say by shaping the web they learn from, new Nature study finds

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Ask an AI model the same political question in two different languages, and you may get two very different responses. A new study in Nature suggests one reason why: governments can indirectly influence large language models (LLMs) by shaping the online media environment, and thus the text those systems learn from.

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Hannah Waight: University of Oregon Eddie Yang: Purdue University Yin Yuan: University of California San Diego Solomon Messing: New York University Margaret E. Roberts: University of California San Diego Brandon M. Stewart: Princeton University Joshua A. Tucker: New York University

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