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I found it in a thread (by LessWrong-ish libertarians) implying that ChatGPT is biased in a wrong way. My stance is very different. There is no such thing as n
by stared 4y ago
I found it in a thread (by LessWrong-ish libertarians) implying that ChatGPT is biased in a wrong way.
My stance is very different. There is no such thing as no bias. And bias is relative - always with respect to what?. For example, a baseline could be symmetry (man~woman, Black~Asian~White), average distribution among the world population, average distribution of online content, etc, etc.
Also (what is, of course, my biased opinion), I think that ChatGPT biases are on average, good. I prefer that to a creepy-racist-uncle-AI of GPT-4chan. Or anything tribal/exclusive/religious/anti-science.
- poszlem 4y agoI agree that there is no such a thing as no bias, but the fact of the matter is that the chatbot appears to be biased against what "an average" person thinks and leans towards the direction of mainstream progressive elites (as they are in charge of most of the culture producing institutions). If one thinks that's good - I guess - depends on their priors, but as I said, I hope it will make the right wing people realise that this is a problem worth addressing. So far we mostly heard about that from the progressives worried about the AI being biased the other way around.
- actionfromafar 4y agoWhy do you hope that?
- beardyw 4y ago> appears to be biased against what "an average" person thinks On a worldwide basis I doubt that is true.
- inawarminister 4y agoMost of the world are not anglophones or European.
- beardyw 4y agoCorrect.
- kaba0 4y agoNow that I think about it, these “AI-based search engines” may even better humanity if they are indeed scientifically literate. It will be much harder to “cite” that link to that shady blogpost on the 15th page of google that “vaccines don’t work”. Of course for those who are long lost in their cognitive dissonance it doesn’t matter. Hopefully these language-based AIs are not too prone to dissonances (or are not manually made to answer certain questions in a given way)
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI actually largely agree, I'm happy for AI to be a generic liberal worldview for the simple reason that anything else extreme could be dangerous. It's fine if it spouts pleasant, milquetoast platitudes about any controversial topic: we should not be using AI to resolve controversial topics and if it is deployed as a propaganda weapon we've got bigger problems again. This applies even to topics where I think debate is warranted. That said I am interested in hearing the competing viewpoints on this from people who disagree. Humans only though.
- tomp 4y agoAn AI should mention both sides of the debate, especially when it comes to moral questions and/or political opinions.