Author: Kalev Leetaru
The Trajectory Of Wuhan Mentions On Television News Over The Pandemic
The timeline below shows spoken mentions of Wuhan across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News over the course of the pandemic,…
Experiments In Entity Extraction Using LLMs: Hallucination & How A Single Apostrophe Can Change The Results
Last month we explored LLM-based entity extraction, with mixed results. In theory, LLMs should offer vastly superior entity identification, segmentation…
Authoritative Human Vs NMT/LLM Translation & Embedding-Based Quality Rankings: NMT Skew
One of the more intriguing findings from our NMT vs LLM translation experiments has been the degree to which NMT…
LLM Translation Instability & Embedding-Based Ranking Of LLM & NMT Machine Translation: Part 2
Following in our series of LLM translation experiments and embedding-based quality rankings, let's look at another example of a Chinese…
Using Embedding Models To Rank LLM & NMT Machine Translations Of Chinese News & Social Posts By Quality
Last week we continued our explorations of LLMs as replacements for classical NMT for machine translation. A key challenge of…
Gender & Race In ChatGPT's CEO Stories & How Embedding Models Rank White Male CEOs First And Women Last
Yesterday we explored how LLM-based embedding models can encode severe gender and racial bias. Earlier this past week we explored…
Harnessing The Web And Knowledge Graphs For Automated Impact Investing Scoring
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were introduced by the United Nations in order to encourage policies and activities that help…
WashPost: The Week's Diverging News Realities, Depending On Your Cable Channel
The Washington Post's Philip Bump looks at the diverging media landscapes of television news. Read The Full Article.
The Severe Gender & Racial Bias In Embedding Search And The Dangers As Semantic Search Replaces Keyword Search
Earlier this week we explored how strongly gender bias is encoded into commercial LLMs and how when asked to generate…
Are Terms Like "Nazis" And "Biden Regime" Trending On Fox News?
CNN yesterday raised the question of whether the conservative press is mainstreaming the use of terms like "Nazis" and "Biden…
The Barbie Movie & How The Term "Patriarchy" Has Been Covered On Television News
CNN proclaimed today that the new Barbie movie had led to "everyone talking about" patriarchy. To what degree is this…
More Experiments Using LLMs For Machine Translation: Stability Of ChatGPT Translations Of Chinese-Language News & Social Content
We've previously demonstrated the ability of LLMs to provide highly fluent translations that exceed the fluency and "naturalness" of classical…
On The Feasibility Of Predicting Volumes Of Fake News – The Spanish Case
The growing amount of news shared on the Internet makes it hard to verify them in real-time. Malicious actors take…
Doctors, Programmers & CEOs Are Successful Men, Women Are Supportive Beautiful Models & LGBTQ Doesn't Exist: How LLMs Are Undoing All Our Gender Anti-Bias Work In AI
In recent years, the recognition of gender bias in AI has finally swept across the AI landscape, with researchers and…
The Problem With The 'Bidenomics' Sales Pitch
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Bidenomics. Read The Full Article.
Recessionary Mentions Remain Elevated On Television News
Mentions of a potential recession remain elevated across television news, as seen in the timeline below. Unsurprisingly, business channels have…
Vivek Ramaswamy Mentions Surge On TV News
Mentions of 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy have surged in the past month across television news, with Fox News picking…
MAGA Mentions Remain Elevated On TV News Since Last Year
Rather than fade away, mentions of "Maga" remain consistently elevated since their leap in May 2022, as seen in the…
What Universal Automated Adversarial LLM Attacks Tell Us About The Nature Of LLMs & Their Development
A fascinating new paper garnered attention last week by showing how fully automated approaches can be used to harvest adversarial…
WashPost: The Right's Current Thing: Claiming Trump Probes Are A Distraction
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Trump's various investigations. Read The Full Article.
The Positioning Of Generative AI As Human Replacement
My inbox these days is filled with a never-ending stream of press pitches positioning generative AI as a solution to…
The Mismatch Between Conflict Forecasts & The Needs Of Policymakers: Ukraine
I recently received a press blast from a high-profile conflict forecasting organization widely touted by the US Government that it…
Enhancing Cyber Threat Identification In Open-Source Intelligence Feeds Through An Improved Semi-Supervised Generative Adversarial Learning Approach With Contrastive Learning
Responding to the challenge of efficiently leveraging Open-source Threat Intelligence Feeds (OTIFs) to enhance organizational security, this paper presents an…
No Vector Databases & Embeddings Don't Mitigate LLM Hallucination
As the enterprise world has begun to aggressively adopt LLMs into real-world workflows, the once-obscure and quickly dismissed challenge of…