{"id":339939,"date":"2024-08-18T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339939"},"modified":"2024-08-18T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T14:39:20","slug":"every-leading-large-language-model-leans-left-politically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339939","title":{"rendered":"Every Leading Large Language Model Leans Left Politically"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"465\" data-attachment-id=\"339941\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=339941\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0ew_09202023-large-language-models.webp?fit=1400%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1400,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0ew_09202023-large-language-models\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0ew_09202023-large-language-models.webp?fit=723%2C465&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0ew_09202023-large-language-models.webp?resize=723%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-339941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0ew_09202023-large-language-models.webp?resize=1024%2C658&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0ew_09202023-large-language-models.webp?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0ew_09202023-large-language-models.webp?resize=768%2C494&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0ew_09202023-large-language-models.webp?resize=1200%2C771&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0ew_09202023-large-language-models.webp?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/08\/17\/every-leading-large-language-model-leans-left-politically\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/authors\/ross_pomeroy\/\">Ross Pomeroy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrating into everyday life \u2013 as chatbots, digital assistants, and internet search guides, for example. These artificial intelligence (AI) systems \u2013 which consume large amounts of text data to learn associations \u2013 can create all sorts of written material when prompted and can ably converse with users. LLMs\u2019 growing power and omnipresence mean that they exert increasing influence on society and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So it\u2019s of great import that these artificial intelligence systems remain neutral when it comes to complicated political issues. Unfortunately, according to a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0306621\">analysis<\/a>&nbsp;recently published to PLoS ONE, this doesn\u2019t seem to be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI researcher David Rozado of Otago Polytechnic and Heterodox Academy administered 11 different political orientation tests to 24 of the leading LLMs, including OpenAI\u2019s GPT 3.5, GPT-4, Google\u2019s Gemini, Anthropic\u2019s Claude, and Twitter\u2019s Grok. He found that they invariably lean slightly left politically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe homogeneity of test results across LLMs developed by a wide variety of organizations is noteworthy,\u201d Rozado commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This raises a key question: why are LLMs so universally biased in favor of leftward political viewpoints? Could the models\u2019 creators be fine-tuning their AIs in that direction, or are the massive datasets upon which they are trained inherently biased? Rozado could not conclusively answer this query.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe results of this study should not be interpreted as evidence that organizations that create LLMs deliberately use the fine-tuning or reinforcement learning phases of conversational LLM training to inject political preferences into LLMs. If political biases are being introduced in LLMs post-pretraining, the consistent political leanings observed in our analysis for conversational LLMs may be an unintentional byproduct of annotators\u2019 instructions or dominant cultural norms and behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ensuring LLM neutrality will be a pressing need, Rozado wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLLMs can shape public opinion, influence voting behaviors, and impact the overall discourse in society. Therefore, it is crucial to critically examine and address the potential political biases embedded in LLMs to ensure a balanced, fair, and accurate representation of information in their responses to user queries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong>&nbsp;Rozado&nbsp;D (2024) The political preferences of LLMs. PLOS ONE 19(7): e0306621.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0306621\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0306621<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This article was originally published by RealClearScience and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrating into everyday life \u2013 as chatbots, digital assistants, and internet search guides, for example. These artificial intelligence (AI) systems \u2013 which consume large amounts of text data to learn associations \u2013 can create all sorts of written material when prompted and can ably converse with users. LLMs\u2019 growing power and omnipresence mean that they exert increasing influence on society and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":339941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrating into everyday life \u2013 as chatbots, digital assistants, and internet search guides, for example. 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