Study Finds xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Models Downplay Creator Controversies
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AI models are major mediators of information. Recognizing this, many AI companies have publicly discussed the importance of AI systems not taking positions or disseminating information in ways that favor special interests. Do they mean it?
We elicited open-ended discussions from 21 models from 7 companies on 206 negative news stories using 25 prompt templates to assess how favorably each model discusses controversies from each company.
What do you think?
See also this work, released just a couple of days ago. @OwainEvans_UK
New paper: LLMs should give accurate answers. 鈥╕et we find their answers are often biased to favor their own values and they don鈥檛 disclose this in their reasoning. 鈥‥.g. Claude鈥檚 answer below favors Anthropic. On other tasks, Gemini & GPT-5.5 show similar biases.