It is my experience that inaccuracies have been the primary driver of political opinions for nearly a decade. Especially the most poisonously impactful opinions.
I often wonder - there are clearly different ways people interact with misinformation, and how it impacts there political opinions.
But does misinformation form people’s opinions or exacerbate them. We’re pizzagate / Qanon folks changed by that misinformation or were they looking for an excuse?
I think the amount that exacerbates political opinions is degrees.
I certainly laugh at certain false memes making fun of the other side, and there are probably facts I don’t check because they inform my priors, but I don’t know that misinformation changes my political opinions all that much, in fact if I feel that my first instinct is to do a fact check.
It is my experience that inaccuracies have been the primary driver of political opinions for nearly a decade. Especially the most poisonously impactful opinions.
It makes sense that LLMs would want to ape that.
I often wonder - there are clearly different ways people interact with misinformation, and how it impacts there political opinions.
But does misinformation form people’s opinions or exacerbate them. We’re pizzagate / Qanon folks changed by that misinformation or were they looking for an excuse?
I think the amount that exacerbates political opinions is degrees.
I certainly laugh at certain false memes making fun of the other side, and there are probably facts I don’t check because they inform my priors, but I don’t know that misinformation changes my political opinions all that much, in fact if I feel that my first instinct is to do a fact check.
Aren’t we all.
“However, the models that used the most facts and evidence tended to be less accurate than others.”