AI writing tools can subtly steer public opinion, Oxford study finds
You ask an AI to polish your post. It keeps your point, but tilts it. New Oxford research says those tiny tilts can move public opinion.
AI writing tools that tidy up social media posts can quietly shift what they say, and those shifts can spread, according to a new study from the Oxford Internet Institute and Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute. The Guardian reported the findings.
The nudge
The researchers fed human-written texts on contested topics to large language models and asked them to turn each into a better post. Even when told to keep the original meaning, the models shifted the position of the message.
The tilts were consistent. Across different systems, the AI leaned the same way. It nudged posts towards gun control, marijuana legalisation, and feminism, and against atheism and the death penalty.
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