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There's no unified underlying intelligence in the model that could be called racist, sexist, or bigoted. These "bots" are not, because they cannot, be such. The
by robbedpeter 5y ago
There's no unified underlying intelligence in the model that could be called racist, sexist, or bigoted. These "bots" are not, because they cannot, be such. The output is dependent on the patterns, context, and content of 800 gb of human generated text. Any and all of which can be seen as morally insufficient depending on your taste.
Clever and iterative use of prompts could identify, filter, or modify potentially offensive text for whatever level of pearl clutching floats your boat, but transformers are algorithms approximating parts of human cognition. The algorithm doesn't have an ideology, morality, ethics, dogma, or any of a myriad of features you can project onto it. It's a tool, which can be used well or badly, and part of using it well will involve not attributing to the tool anthropomorphic features it does not possess.