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Aligning Large Language Models with Diverse Political Viewpoints

Computation and Language 2024-10-07 v2

Abstract

Large language models such as ChatGPT exhibit striking political biases. If users query them about political information, they often take a normative stance. To overcome this, we align LLMs with diverse political viewpoints from 100,000 comments written by candidates running for national parliament in Switzerland. Models aligned with this data can generate more accurate political viewpoints from Swiss parties, compared to commercial models such as ChatGPT. We also propose a procedure to generate balanced overviews summarizing multiple viewpoints using such models. The replication package contains all code and data.

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@article{arxiv.2406.14155,
  title  = {Aligning Large Language Models with Diverse Political Viewpoints},
  author = {Dominik Stammbach and Philine Widmer and Eunjung Cho and Caglar Gulcehre and Elliott Ash},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14155},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

accepted at EMNLP 2024 main as a short paper

R2 v1 2026-06-28T17:13:11.724Z