Paper ID: 2406.14155

Aligning Large Language Models with Diverse Political Viewpoints

Dominik Stammbach, Philine Widmer, Eunjung Cho, Caglar Gulcehre, Elliott Ash

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

Submitted: Jun 20, 2024