#political-bias — Public Fediverse posts
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Credentials Subordinated as Political Alignment Dominates Expert Trust
New research shows people trust experts who share their political views more than those with better qualifications. This affects who people believe.
#ExpertTrust, #PoliticalBias, #PublicOpinion, #Research, #MediaInfluence
https://newsletter.tf/politics-over-qualifications-trust-based-on-beliefs/
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A new study found people trust experts who share their political opinions more than those with better qualifications. This is a big change in how we choose who to believe.
#ExpertTrust, #PoliticalBias, #PublicOpinion, #Research, #MediaInfluence
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Measuring Political Bias in Claude
https://www.anthropic.com/news/political-even-handedness
#HackerNews #MeasuringPoliticalBias #PoliticalBias #AIResearch #ClaudeAnthropic #NewsAnalysis
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#OpenAI wants to stop #ChatGPT from validating users’ #political views
"ChatGPT shouldn't have political #bias in any direction."
That's OpenAI's stated goal in a new research paper released Thursday about measuring and reducing political bias in its #AI models. The company says that "people use ChatGPT as a tool to learn and explore ideas" and argues "that only works if they trust ChatGPT to be objective."
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OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views - "ChatGPT shouldn't have political bias in any direction."
Th... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/openai-wants-to-stop-chatgpt-from-validating-users-political-views/ #largelanguagemodels #alignmentresearch #machinelearning #aiobjectivity #politicalbias #culturalbias #generativeai #aialignment #aicriticism #aibehavior #airesearch #anthropic #aiethics #chatgpt #biz #aibias #openai #rlhf #ai -
OpenAI Claims 30% Reduction in Political Bias for GPT-5, Releases New Measurement Framework
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@slashdot Sounds like far-right crap is so unpopular that basically there is not enough far-right input data in training process to please far-right tribe with LLM outputs, without some hardcoded constrainsts.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/10/1628209/meta-says-llama-4-targets-left-leaning-bias -
Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away – The New York Times
Opinion, By Thomas L. Friedman
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
Aug. 4, 2025
Credit…Will Matsuda for The New York TimesListen to this article · 7:12 min Learn more
By Thomas L. Friedman, Opinion Columnist
Of all the terrible things Donald Trump has said and done as president, the most dangerous one just happened on Friday. Trump, in effect, ordered our trusted and independent government office of economic statistics to become as big a liar as he is.
He fired Erika McEntarfer, the Senate-confirmed head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for bringing him economic news he did not like, and in the hours immediately following, the second most dangerous thing happened: The senior Trump officials most responsible for running our economy — people who in their private businesses never would have contemplated firing a subordinate who brought them financial data they did not like — all went along for the ride.
What they should have said to Trump is this: “Mr. President, if you don’t reconsider this decision — if you fire the top labor bureau statistician because she brought you bad economic news — how will anyone in the future trust that office when it issues good news?” Instead, they immediately covered for him.
As The Wall Street Journal pointed out, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer had actually gone on Bloomberg TV early Friday and declared that even though the jobs report that had just been released was revised downward for May and June, “we’ve seen positive job growth.” But as soon as she got the news hours later that Trump had fired the very B.L.S. director who reports to her, she wrote on X: “I agree wholeheartedly with @POTUS that our jobs numbers must be fair, accurate, and never manipulated for political purposes.”
As The Journal asked: “So were the jobs data that were ‘positive’ in the morning rigged by the afternoon?” Of course not.
The moment I heard what Trump had done, I had a flashback. It was January 2021, and it had just been reported that Trump, after losing the 2020 election, had tried to pressure Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” him enough votes — exactly 11,780, Trump said — to overturn the presidential election and even threatened him with “a criminal offense” if he didn’t. The pressure came during an hourlong telephone call, according to an audio recording of the conversation.
The difference, though, is that back then there was something called a Republican official with integrity. And so Georgia’s secretary of state did not agree to fabricate votes that did not exist. But that species of Republican official seems to have gone completely extinct in Trump’s second term. So Trump’s rotten character is now a problem for our whole economy.
Going forward, how many government bureaucrats are going to dare to pass along bad news when they know that their bosses — people like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; the director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett; Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer; and the U.S. trade representative, Jamieson Greer — will not only fail to defend them but will actually offer them up as a sacrifice to Trump to keep their jobs?
Shame on each and every one of them — particularly on Bessent, a former hedge fund manager, who knows better and did not step in. What a coward. As Bessent’s predecessor, Janet Yellen, the former Treasury secretary and also the former chair of the Federal Reserve — and a person with actual integrity — told my Times colleague Ben Casselman of the B.L.S. firing: “This is the kind of thing you would only expect to see in a banana republic.”
It is important to know how foreigners are looking at this. Bill Blain, a London-based bond trader who publishes a newsletter popular among market experts called Blain’s Morning Porridge, wrote on Monday: “Friday, Aug. 1 might go down in history as the day the U.S. Treasury market died. There was an art to reading U.S. data. It relied on trust. Now that is broken — if you can’t trust the data, what can you trust?”
He then went on to imagine how his Porridge newsletter will sound in May 2031. It will begin, he wrote, with “a link to a release from Trump’s Ministry of Economic Truth, formerly the U.S. Treasury: ‘Under the leadership of President Trump, the U.S. economy continues to grow at record speed. Payrolls data from the Ministry of Truth, a subsidiary of Truth Social, show full employment across America. Tensions in the inner cities have never been so low. All recent graduates have found highly paid jobs across America’s expanding manufacturing sector, causing many large companies in Trump Inc to report significant labor shortages.’”
If you think this is far-fetched, you clearly have not been following the foreign policy news, because this kind of tactic — the tailoring of information to fit Trump’s political needs — has already been deployed in the intelligence field.
In May the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, fired two top intelligence officials who oversaw an assessment that contradicted Trump’s assertions that the gang Tren de Aragua was operating under the direction of the Venezuelan regime. Their assessment undermined the dubious legal rationale Trump invoked — the rarely used 1798 Alien Enemies Act — to allow the suspected gang members to be thrown out of the country without due process.
And now this trend toward self-blinding is spreading to further corners of the government.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/opinion/columnists/friedman-trump-labor-firing.html
#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #EditedTruth #FederalGovernment #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Lies #Opinion #PoliticalBias #Politics #Resistance #Science #TheNewYorkTimes #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpCorrupts #UnitedStates
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National Science Foundation staffers express concerns about ‘politically motivated and legally questionable’ Trump actions – The Hill
National Science Foundation staffers express concerns about ‘politically motivated and legally questionable’ Trump actions
by Rachel Frazin – 07/22/25 1:25 PM ET
Employees of the National Science Foundation (NSF) are going public with concerns about “politically motivated and legally questionable” actions by the Trump administration related to their agency.
Their concerns range from mass firings by the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency to interference with the grant process.
In particular, the employees allege that for grants “a covert and ideologically driven secondary review process by unqualified political appointees is now interfering with the scientific merit-based review system.”
The accusation and others are detailed in a letter addressed to Rep. Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Lofgren said at a press conference that the letter was being submitted to her office as “a protected whistleblower disclosure.”
It was signed by 149 staffers, virtually all of whom signed either anonymously or whose names were redacted in the version of the letter that was made public on Tuesday.
The NSF is an independent science agency that supports scientific research across various fields including biology, engineering, computer science and geoscience.
The agency declined to comment on the letter.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5413880-national-science-foundation-nsf-trump-grants-doge/
#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #Employees #Grants #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #NationalScienceFoundation #NSF #PoliticalBias #Politics #Resistance #Science #Technology #TheHill #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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AI might now be as good as humans at detecting emotion, political leaning and sarcasm in online conversations
#Tech #AI #ChatGPT #GPT4 #EmotionDetection #SarcasmDetection #PoliticalBias #LanguageModels #TechEthics #LLM #AIResearch #FutureOfAI
https://the-14.com/ai-might-now-be-as-good-as-humans-at-detecting-emotion-political-leaning-and-sarcasm-in-online-conversations/ -
How can anyone say NZ news media have a left bias when The Post is publishing political "analysis" pieces by Luke Malpass, which read like a series of NatACT talking points.
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Meta’s Llama 4 AI Targets Left Bias for “Both Sides” View
#AI #Meta #Llama4 #AIBias #PoliticalBias #ContentModeration #FactChecking #CommunityNotes #Zuckerberg #BigTech #LLMs #GenAI
https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/10/metas-llama-4-ai-targets-left-bias-for-both-sides-view-xcxwbn/
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More biased = more trustworthy? New research uncovers a troubling trend among Democrats and Republicans https://www.psypost.org/more-biased-more-trustworthy-new-research-uncovers-a-troubling-trend-among-democrats-and-republicans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PoliticalBias #PartisanLanguage #TrustInPolitics #PoliticalPolarization #DivisivePolitics
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Meta drops fact-checking partners, including USA Today, leaving them blindsided. Meta rejects claims of being “too politically biased.” 🤔 #Meta #FactChecking #USAToday #TechNews #MediaBias #SocialMedia #FactCheck #PoliticalBias #FakeNews #MetaUpdate #TechIndustry
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New research reveals the double-edged effects of essentialist beliefs on political bias https://www.psypost.org/new-research-reveals-the-double-edged-effects-of-essentialist-beliefs-on-political-bias/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PoliticalBias #Essentialism #PartisanPrejudice #PoliticalResearch #BeliefSystems
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US House Republicans probe SEC’s Gensler on political hiring claims - Three GOP lawmakers asked SEC Chair Gary Gensler to turn over informatio... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-gop-lawmakers-political-hiring-probe-sec-gary-gensler #financialoversight. #civilservicereform #cryptoenforcement #houserepublicans #hiringpractices #politicalbias #investigation #garygensler #secchair #sec
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This same press conference was announced by #apnews on the top of its website.
This article!? Buried more than halfway down the page…
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'How can #GBNews get away with peddling ‘turbo cancer’ conspiracy theories? Only #Ofcom knows
It smacks of #PoliticalBias to cite freedom of expression when dismissing complaints about a presenter’s anti-vaxxer rants'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/13/gb-news-turbo-cancer-conspiracy-theories-ofcom-bias-anti-vaxxer -
So I'm thinking of subscribing to this lot. They are Ground News. They are a news aggregator which also shows the political bias of those that cover the stories. It also shows the reliability or "truthfulness" of those sources so that you can have a chance at making an educated guess on how you should view the content. Worth a punt, I think.
Anyone tried them? Opinions please. #news #politicalbias #CheckYourSources