The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Nice study that essentially corroborates Michel Rolph Trouillot's silencing framework.
The diagram embodies all silencing processes (fact creation/assembly/retrieval/retrospective significance), a bleak reminder on how power operates today.
Amalia S. Levi, PhD
1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out
@nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output.
nature.com/articles/s41...
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
