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How much can AI companies control the AI? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
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You hear about breaking in to other places, deleting stuff etc., but can they control what we see? Like give us specific ads or companies because they paid to be there?

I'm curious if they're trying to make it seem like they have no control so they can do what they want, or is out of control and should be shut down?

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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

To answer the other side of this: LLMs are the sum of their parts and weights. If the weighting algorithm is closed, they could very easily have encoded preferences into it. If the data it is trained on is skewed, that will also show up in the results.

We regularly hear how LLMs are “trained on the Internet”. But we know that’s not really the case; they’re trained on specific Reddit subreddits, collections of books, collections of images, stack exchange, and a number of other unnamed sources. In the case of Gemini, I’m pretty sure it’s trained on Google’s search index data itself.

So which sources are part of the core model and what weight they’re given in final results will definitely impact how the model responds to a prompt.

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