Using DML and mediation analysis on AllSides articles, only fine-tuned GPT-4o-mini exhibits significant sentiment-to-ideology causal effects at community level, unlike human annotators, indicating spurious coupling learned during fine-tuning.
LLM s Are Prone to Fallacies in Causal Inference
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Does Topic Sentiment Cause Perceived Ideology? Comparing Human and LLM Annotations in Political News Articles
Using DML and mediation analysis on AllSides articles, only fine-tuned GPT-4o-mini exhibits significant sentiment-to-ideology causal effects at community level, unlike human annotators, indicating spurious coupling learned during fine-tuning.