Incredibly important new research articulating the impact of "institutional influence" on LLM outputs. Important to view through the lens of LLM outputs in non-English langs where training data comes from state-sanctioned sources, incl. state media, govt agencies, and even state-selected literature:
Aliya Bhatia
New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓
