A portmanteau of back propagation and propaganda, similar to "debiasing". The practice of intentionally embedding political, ideological or other opinions into an artificially intelligent system to further a particular agenda, different than the underlying distribution of the training datasets.
While not strictly using back propagation to achieve this effect, or rather reinforcement learning or prompt engineering, the word encompasses a broader range of methods than it's meaning suggests.
While not strictly using back propagation to achieve this effect, or rather reinforcement learning or prompt engineering, the word encompasses a broader range of methods than it's meaning suggests.
Users of modern generative AI models should watch out for backpropaganda, especially when generating historically accurate images
by backpropagandist February 22, 2024