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Multiple readings State media control influences large language models | Nature Policy & governance · 4 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Ai social sciences

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Justin Hendrix J. Nathan Matias Alison Gopnik Henry Farrell Eileen Clancy 🧿 Gina Helfrich

“"A world where there is no N.S.F. funding for social science, but where the A.I. industry funds research... will skew public debate. To navigate the shock waves of A.I., we must restore social science research as an enterprise that starts from the public in…”

“In the Times this morning- Henry Farrell James Evans and I on why we desperately need the social sciences to understand AI and its impact , just at the moment when the admin is trying to destroy them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...”

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Established Models & releases Research 12d ago
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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Luke Stark Gina Helfrich Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Debora Nozza MilaNLP Lab René Walter B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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Policy & governance

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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...”

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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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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 17d ago
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Meta glasses are a workplace menace

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Data & Society Woodrow Hartzog Gina Helfrich

“AI-powered smart glasses exacerbate power imbalances in the workplace, especially for service and retail workers. It's "part of a larger story about the way in which being an employee means taking on increased suffering as part of the job,” says @hartzog.bs…”

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Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
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UK government unaware datacentre uses FoI

UK government does not know what datacentres are being used for, FoI request shows

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Alex Hern Gina Helfrich

“…ok? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...”

“Malpractice. Dereliction of duty? Whatever the term, it’s despicable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...”

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