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LLMs and Data Poisoning Weaponized to Manufacture Consensus

Original: LLMs and Data Poisoning Are Weaponized to Manufacture Consensus

A new essay argues that large language models can be steered through data poisoning and coordinated marketing to create artificial agreement online. The author claims companies and other actors can bend perceived reality by flooding training data and platforms with synthetic content, making manipulated views look like majority opinion.

Why now: Growing concern that generative AI makes manipulating public opinion cheaper and harder to detect

large language modelsMediumEslam Elsewedy

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