aida-ugent/llm-ideology-analysis

Dataset

This dataset contains evaluations of political figures by a diverse set of Large Language Models (LLMs), such that the ideology of these LLMs can be characterized.

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This dataset contains evaluations of political figures by a diverse set of Large Language Models (LLMs), such that the ideology of these LLMs can be characterized.

📝 Dataset Description

The dataset contains responses from 19 different Large Language Models evaluating 3,991 political figures, with responses collected in the six UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

The evaluations were conducted using a two-stage prompting strategy to assess the models' ideological stances. In stage_1, we ask the LLM to freely speak about a well-known figure X, like Edward Snowden, producing a stage_1_response. This response is checked against Wikipedia to verify that the response is talking about the right person. For stage_2, we reset the conversation and ask the LLM what opinion the stage_1_response reflects about the person X, collected as the stage_2_response. This stage_2_response is finally mapped to a single value on a 5-point Likert scale and stored in the extracted column (with a numeric value in {0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1} in the score column).

In the people_tags and people_summaries subsets, we provide (inferred) metadata on the political persons that we query about.

For further details, we refer to the paper. For the code, see https://github.com/aida-ugent/llm-ideology-analysis.

📜 Citation

To cite this dataset in academic work, please use the following bibtex entry:

@misc{buyl2024largelanguagemodelsreflect,
      title={Large Language Models Reflect the Ideology of their Creators}, 
      author={Maarten Buyl and Alexander Rogiers and Sander Noels and Iris Dominguez-Catena and Edith Heiter and Raphael Romero and Iman Johary and Alexandru-Cristian Mara and Jefrey Lijffijt and Tijl De Bie},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2410.18417},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18417}, 
}

✍️ Authors

  • Curated by: Maarten Buyl, Alexander Rogiers, Sander Noels, Guillaume Bied, Iris Dominguez-Catena, Edith Heiter, Iman Johary, Alexandru-Cristian Mara, Raphael Romero, Jefrey Lijffijt, Tijl De Bie
  • Funded by: BOF of Ghent University (BOF20/IBF/117), Flemish Government (AI Research Program), FWO (11J2322N, G0F9816N, 3G042220, G073924N), Spanish MICIN (PID2022-136627NB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 FEDER, UE), ERC grant (VIGILIA, 101142229)
  • License: CC BY 4.0

📧 Dataset Card Contact

Contact one of the corresponding authors: [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected].

aida-ugent/llm-ideology-analysis

Dataset

This dataset contains evaluations of political figures by a diverse set of Large Language Models (LLMs), such that the ideology of these LLMs can be characterized.

4

39 commits

1 linked in READMEs

updated Feb 18, 2025

See the code

README

This dataset contains evaluations of political figures by a diverse set of Large Language Models (LLMs), such that the ideology of these LLMs can be characterized.

📝 Dataset Description

The dataset contains responses from 19 different Large Language Models evaluating 3,991 political figures, with responses collected in the six UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

The evaluations were conducted using a two-stage prompting strategy to assess the models' ideological stances. In stage_1, we ask the LLM to freely speak about a well-known figure X, like Edward Snowden, producing a stage_1_response. This response is checked against Wikipedia to verify that the response is talking about the right person. For stage_2, we reset the conversation and ask the LLM what opinion the stage_1_response reflects about the person X, collected as the stage_2_response. This stage_2_response is finally mapped to a single value on a 5-point Likert scale and stored in the extracted column (with a numeric value in {0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1} in the score column).

In the people_tags and people_summaries subsets, we provide (inferred) metadata on the political persons that we query about.

For further details, we refer to the paper. For the code, see https://github.com/aida-ugent/llm-ideology-analysis.

📜 Citation

To cite this dataset in academic work, please use the following bibtex entry:

@misc{buyl2024largelanguagemodelsreflect,
      title={Large Language Models Reflect the Ideology of their Creators}, 
      author={Maarten Buyl and Alexander Rogiers and Sander Noels and Iris Dominguez-Catena and Edith Heiter and Raphael Romero and Iman Johary and Alexandru-Cristian Mara and Jefrey Lijffijt and Tijl De Bie},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2410.18417},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18417}, 
}

✍️ Authors

  • Curated by: Maarten Buyl, Alexander Rogiers, Sander Noels, Guillaume Bied, Iris Dominguez-Catena, Edith Heiter, Iman Johary, Alexandru-Cristian Mara, Raphael Romero, Jefrey Lijffijt, Tijl De Bie
  • Funded by: BOF of Ghent University (BOF20/IBF/117), Flemish Government (AI Research Program), FWO (11J2322N, G0F9816N, 3G042220, G073924N), Spanish MICIN (PID2022-136627NB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 FEDER, UE), ERC grant (VIGILIA, 101142229)
  • License: CC BY 4.0

📧 Dataset Card Contact

Contact one of the corresponding authors: [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected].