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If an AI is told to "follow" a certain academic paradigm, will it rate papers differently? 🤔 A new study by Mike Thelwall et al. shows: yes. Across 8 paradigm pairs and 1,490 papers, #ChatGPT scored higher when aligned and lower when opposed, quietly penalizing ideas outside its frame:
To me, it’s a warning - #AI trained on dominant views can undermine pluralism and create a technical illusion of one truth.
#AIethics #LLM #Sociology #Paradigms
Can ChatGPT be a good follower of academic paradigms? Research quality evaluations in conflicting areas of sociology
Purpose: It has become increasingly likely that Large Language Models (LLMs) will be used to score the quality of academic publications to support research assessment goals in the future.arXiv.org
#Sociology: ‘Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from the Autocrat era of Argentina.”
“By examining the 4,287 officers who served in autocratic #Argentina from 1975 to 1983, they discovered that the ranks of secret police are filled by those who perform poorly in merit-based systems.
Facing firing for their poor performance, they turn to more burdensome secret police work.”
