用大模型分析英媒对俄乌和以哈冲突的偏见,发现报道倾向随事件变化
An evaluation of LLMs for political bias in Western media: Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia wars
- 用BERT、Gemini、DeepSeek三类大模型分析英媒左右立场
- 以哈冲突中媒体左倾明显,卫报偏移更剧烈,且各模型结果不一致
- 适合关注媒体偏见、大模型伦理及政治传播的研究者阅读
媒体中的政治偏见在塑造公众舆论、选民行为和民主讨论中起着关键作用。主观观点与政治偏见可能源于报纸等媒体来源,受其资金机制和政党联盟影响。自动化检测媒体内容中的政治偏见有助于减少选举中的偏差。大语言模型(LLMs)在政治与媒体研究中的应用日益突出。本研究利用LLMs对比《卫报》和BBC在左翼、右翼与中立立场上的表达,分析包括俄乌战争和哈马斯-以色列冲突在内的重大事件报道。我们评估了不同立场的比例,考察BERT、Gemini和DeepSeek等模型的表现。结果显示,战争爆发后西方媒体的政治偏见整体转向左翼,且各模型给出的结果存在差异:DeepSeek始终呈现稳定左倾趋势,而BERT和Gemini则更接近中间立场。《卫报》与BBC在两场冲突中的报道行为显著不同——俄乌战争中两者立场相对稳定;但在以哈冲突中,识别出更大的政治偏见转移,尤其体现在《卫报》的报道中,表明其报道偏见具有更强的事件驱动特征。这些差异表明,大模型不仅受训练数据与架构影响,也反映其潜在世界观与政治偏见。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Political bias in media plays a critical role in shaping public opinion, voter behaviour, and broader democratic discourse. Subjective opinions and political bias can be found in media sources, such as newspapers, depending on their funding mechanisms and alliances with political parties. Automating the detection of political biases in media content can limit biases in elections. The impact of large language models (LLMs) in politics and media studies is becoming prominent. In this study, we utilise LLMs to compare the left-wing, right-wing, and neutral political opinions expressed in the Guardian and BBC. We review newspaper reporting that includes significant events such as the Russia-Ukraine war and the Hamas-Israel conflict. We analyse the proportion for each opinion to find the bias under different LLMs, including BERT, Gemini, and DeepSeek. Our results show that after the outbreak of the wars, the political bias of Western media shifts towards the left-wing and each LLM gives a different result. DeepSeek consistently showed a stable Left-leaning tendency, while BERT and Gemini remained closer to the Centre. The BBC and The Guardian showed distinct reporting behaviours across the two conflicts. In the Russia-Ukraine war, both outlets maintained relatively stable positions; however, in the Israel-Hamas conflict, we identified larger political bias shifts, particularly in Guardian coverage, suggesting a more event-driven pattern of reporting bias. These variations suggest that LLMs are shaped not only by their training data and architecture, but also by underlying worldviews with associated political biases.
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