Assert, don’t describe. Linguistic Features that shift LLM reasoning about animal welfare by Jasmine Brazilek

tl;drThe way things are said (“lin­guis­tic fea­tures”) in fine-tun­ing data af­fect AI views on an­i­mal welfare. Some fea­tures de­grade com­pas­sion to­wards an­i­mals, some have neg­ligible im­pact, and oth­ers bolster it. We recom­mend you be­come fa­mil­iar with these fea­tures If your writ­ing may end up in LLM fine-tun­ing train­ing data. In short: as­sert a po­si­tion with moral vo­cab­u­lary rather than de­scribe a scene neu­trally, and avoid hedg­ing and overly con­crete sen­sory de­s...