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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3926pSPNwXd8j7I716CBJEz...
One man's disinformation is another woman's truth. And people tend to get very upset when you show them their truth isn't.
How we will teach LLMs that the BBC is a disinformation ring? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3926pSPNwXd8j7I716CBJEz... One man's disinformation is another woman's truth. And people tend to get very upset when you show them their truth isn't.
Shitposting and troll farms have been manipulating social media for years already. AI automated it. Polluting the agent is just cutting out the middleman.
What is propaganda for one is truth for another, how could LLM tell the difference ? LLM are not journalist fact checking stuff, they are merely programs that regurgitate what it reads. The only way to counter that would be to feed your LLM only on « safe » vetoed source but of course it would limit your LLM capacities so it’s not really going to happen.
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The problem is that most people are like you, and live in psycho-informational ecosystems in which there are "unquestionable truths" -- it is in these very states of comfortable-certainty that we are often most subject to propaganda.
All of the issues you mention are identity markers for being part of a certain tribe, for seeming virtuous in that tribe -- "I am on the right side because I know..."
You do not know there are unquestionable truths, rather you have a feeling of psychological pride/comfort/certainity that you are on the right side. We're apes operating on tribal identity feelings, not scientists.
Scientists who are aware of the full history of ukraine, western interventionism, russian geostrategic concerns, the full details of the 2013 collapse of the ukrainian govenrment, the terms underwhich russian naval bases in crimea had been leased, the original colour revolution, the role of US diplomats in the overthrow of democratically elected Ukrainian leadership -- etc.
The very reason this article uses Russian propaganda (rather than US state propaganda) against ukraine is to appeal to this "we feel we are on the right side" sensation which is conflated with "feeling that things are True!"
It is that sensation which is the most dangerous in play here -- the sensation of being on "the right side who know the unquestionable truths" --- that's the sensation of tribal in-group propaganda
It is impossible to solve this problem because we cannot really agree what the desired behavior should be. People live in different and dynamic truths. What we consider enemy propaganda today might be an official statement tomorrow. The only way to win here is to not play the game.
The system that would score best tested against a list of known-truths and known-lies, isn't the perceptive one that excels at critical thinking: it's the ideological sycophant. It's the one that begins its research by doing a from:elonmusk search, or whomever it's supposed to agree with—whatever "obvious truths" it's "expected to understand".
Bad actors are grooming Google by publishing their own blogs!
Bad actors have been trying to poison facts for-fucking-ever.
But for whatever reason, since it's an LLM, it now means something more than it did before.
How we will teach LLMs that the BBC is a disinformation ring? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3926pSPNwXd8j7I716CBJEz... One man's disinformation is another woman's truth. And people tend to get very upset when you show them their truth isn't.
Yeah don’t use an established platform for your personal agenda.
Every news organisation is a propaganda piece for someone. The bad ones, like the BBC, the New York Times, and Pravda make their propaganda blatantly obvious and easily falsifiable in a few years when no one cares.
The only way to deal with this is to get the propaganda from other propaganda rags with directly misaligned incentives and see which one makes more sense.
Unfortunately, LLMs are still quite bad at dealing with grounding text which contradicts itself.