The loss function for an actor's policy, π, is given by: L(θ) = -E[ Σ log π(a|s) * A(s,a) ], where A(s,a) is the advantage for taking action 'a' in state 's'. The training process works by minimizing this loss. If an agent takes an action that results in a large positive advantage, what is the direct effect of this event on the policy update?

An agent is being trained using an actor-critic method where the actor's loss is the negative of the expected sum of the log-probabilities of actions multiplied by their advantage values. During one training step, the agent selects an action that results in a large negative advantage. True or False: The optimization process, which aims to minimize the actor's loss, will update the policy to decrease the likelihood of selecting this action in the same state in the future.

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