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Large language models are increasingly integrating into everyday life—as chatbots, digital assistants, and internet search guides, for example. These artificial intelligence systems, which consume large amounts of text data to learn associations, can create all sorts of written material when prompted and can ably converse with users. Large language models’ growing power and omnipresence mean that they exert increasing influence on society and culture. So, it’s of great import that these artificial intelligence systems remain neutral when it comes to complicated political issues. Unfortunately, according to a new analysis recently published to PLoS ONE, this doesn’t seem to be the case. AI researcher David Rozado of Otago Polytechnic and Heterodox Academy administered 11 different political orientation tests to 24 of the leading large language models, including OpenAI’s GPT 3.5, GPT-4, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and Twitter’s Grok. He found that they invariably lean slightly left politically. “The homogeneity of test results across LLMs developed by a wide variety of organizations is noteworthy,” Rozado commented. That raises a key question: Why are large language models so universally biased in favor of leftward political viewpoints? Could the models’ creators be fine-tuning their AIs in that direction, or are the massive data sets upon which they are trained inherently biased? Rozado could not conclusively answer this query: “The 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’ instructions or dominant cultural norms and behaviors.” Ensuring large language models’ neutrality will be a pressing need, Rozado wrote: “LLMs 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.” Originally published by RealClearScience and made available via RealClearWire. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Why Does Every Leading Large Language Model Lean Left Politically? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

As she has with every other meaningful position that Vice President Kamala Harris has taken in the past, she has now predictably flip-flopped on her support for Medicare-for-All. Add it to the list of recent reversals that includes banning fracking, mandatory gun buyback programs, taxation on tips, and border security....

If you understand her actual role in the theater of politics and government, this sort of thing makes perfect sense. A reliable puppet whom deep state operatives can trust to read from a teleprompter, leave the border open and keep the foreign wars going, Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared mpox (monkeypox) a global public health emergency. “Today, the emergency committee met and advised me that in its view the situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced. WATCH: NOW – WHO's Tedros declares global "mpox" emergency. pic.twitter.com/2CPJE1JUFR — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 14, 2024 Per Reuters: The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak of the viral infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to neighbouring countries. Mpox can spread through close contact. Usually mild, it is fatal in rare cases. It causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions on the body. Determining a disease outbreak as a “public health emergency of international concern” or PHEIC — the WHO’s highest level of alert — can accelerate research, funding and international public health measures and co-operation to contain a disease. The outbreak in Congo began with the spread of an endemic strain, known as clade I. But a new variant, clade Ib, appears to spread more easily through routine close contact, including sexual contact. It has spread from Congo to neighbouring countries, including Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, triggering the action from the WHO. 83 days before the election, the World Health Organization (WHO) has just declared monkey pox a “global health emergency”. Interesting timing. pic.twitter.com/FyDwrQuIHw — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) August 14, 2024 #BREAKING: The World Health Organization has declared Mpox a public health emergency of international concern. pic.twitter.com/Md7LRRXUhd — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 14, 2024 “It’s clear that a coordinated international response is essential to stop these outbreaks and save lives,” Ghebreyesus added. From the Associated Press: Earlier this week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the mpox outbreaks were a public health emergency, with more than 500 deaths, and called for international help to stop the virus’ spread. “This is something that should concern us all … The potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The Africa CDC previously said mpox, also known as monkeypox, has been detected in 13 countries this year, and more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo. Cases are up 160% and deaths are up 19% compared with the same period last year. So far, there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 people have died. “We are now in a situation where (mpox) poses a risk to many more neighbors in and around central Africa,” said Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group. He said the new version of mpox spreading from Congo appears to have a death rate of about 3-4%. In 2022, WHO declared mpox to be a global emergency after it spread to more than 70 countries that had not previously reported mpox, mostly affecting gay and bisexual men. In that outbreak, fewer than 1% of people died.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has ordered sovereign nations to coordinate a global response to what he describes as the “Mpox international health emergency” following a minor outbreak in isolated parts of the [...] The post WHO Declares ‘International Mpox Emergency’ and Orders ‘Global Co-ordinated Response’ appeared first on The People's Voice.