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Multiple readings State media control influences large language models | Nature Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Ai hugging face big tech danger Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

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Justin Hendrix Luke Stark Henry Farrell Eli Sennesh Gina Helfrich Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Debora Nozza MilaNLP Lab +2
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Multiple readings

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”

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“Builds on stodgier academic work here - www.science.org/stoken/autho... - this, by Roberts et al, is also very interesting on language and LLMs albeit much more political www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago
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Ai hugging face big tech danger

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Alondra Nelson Justin Hendrix Luke Stark Eli Sennesh Dare Obasanjo Aram Sinnreich Nathalie Maréchal, PhD
2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Dare Obasanjo: Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distrac…
Dare Obasanjo: We’re going to see a lot more AI-assisted botnets and hacking because botnets are software, and software is increasingly being built and operated with AI. That doesn’t require a Skynet story. Hacki…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distrac…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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AI social technology framework essay

AI as Social Technology

6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Henry Farrell Eli Sennesh Karen Gregory Carlos Scheidegger Chris Marsden

“Eddie's work is also discussed in knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...”

“yup. Have you read this? knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... It's very good.”

4 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Isaiah Bishop: you contribute to the RL, you get the equity
rev. howard arson: i keep saying this but LLMs are almost ideally shaped for collective ownership. the union idea is a super interesting direction to go with that
Carlos Scheidegger: yup. Have you read this? knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... It's very good.
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3 experts · 25 posts · 1d ago
Eli Sennesh Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Matt Darling: Isn't that the assumption under debate, though?
Matt Darling: Like it seems perfectly plausible that "thinking requires billions of years of feedback from the complicated external enviroment" but I also think we should be at least *willing* to be surprised if…
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5 experts · 14 posts · 6d ago
Eugene Vinitsky angela zhou Ramon Astudillo Claas Voelcker Eli Sennesh
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: There’s a bit too much emphasis on incentives and not enough on 1-1 shame. You’re the guy in charge of targeting people with gambling addictions? You shouldn’t be able to tell people your job. You …
Eugene Vinitsky: Need systems to become just much more honest. Hopefully we can do this without simultaneously becoming toxic.
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