> The situation you described is possible, but would require something like a subverting effort of propaganda by the state.
Great! LLMs are fed from the same swarm.
> If you pretrained an LLM with data saying Moscow is the capital of Connecticut it would think that is true.
> Well so would a human!
But humans aren't static weights, we update continuously, and we arrive at consensus via communication as we all experience different perspectives. You can fool an entire group through propaganda, but there are boundless historical examples of information making its way in through human communication to overcome said propaganda.
Continual/online learning is still an area of active research.