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AI language models are rife with political biases (www.technologyreview.com)

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From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess shoving an encyclopedia into it. I'm not sure really, it is a good point. Perhaps AI bias is as inevitable as human bias...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Despite what you might assume, an encyclopedia wouldn't be free from bias. It might not be as biased as, say, getting your training data from a dump of 4chan, but it'd absolutely still have bias. As an on-the-nose example, think about the definition of homosexuality; training on an older encyclopedia would mean the AI now thinks homosexuality is a crime.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And imagine how badly most encyclopedias would reflect on languages and cultures other than the one that made them.