r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Any_Comparison_8760 • Sep 02 '26

Do u dont wanna Since when did we need chatgpt to know the alphabet..?

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u/unicornsandrainbowst Sep 02 '26

You might be joking but is going to happen and is already happening.   If OpenAI slowly "skews" the answers to more right/left/whatever leaning, or whatever topic they want to push at the moment, a big chunk of the population will go for it.  

The goal is not only control of the data, is also control of what a lot of people perceive as "real/fact". Remember all the problems we, as a society, had and have with Facebook and the millions who got radicalized even knowing that it was "others" giving that info?  

Now imagine the same, but now is not others, but a machine that many think is 100% right always.  

In 5 years, what will be the ad value of ChatGPT prioritizing brand X over Y when someone asks "What is the best orange juice "?

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u/AppUnwrapper1 Sep 02 '26

I dunno why I didn’t consider that all the people I know who ask ChatGPT every damned thing might also ask who to vote for. 😞

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u/WeenyDancer Sep 02 '26

Oh, oh god. Why did this not occur to me before? Oh nooooo

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u/spaghettifiasco Sep 02 '26

It's kind of cute how you think that there's a chance of it skewing both ways instead of the way that all of the tech oligarchs favor.

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u/FryToastFrill FryToastFrll Sep 03 '26

It would be too obvious if OpenAI tweaked the model tbh, like how grok is tweaked so overtly for whatever Elon thinks. That being said a much easier and safer option is to flood LLM training data with shitty websites and Reddit comments supporting whatever candidate you want. Stuff like this has already been tested as a working strategy especially for companies who want to manipulate the training data for the sake of marketing.