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I don't see why it's an AI issue only. Imagine how awful it would be if millions of people got their information from a biased carbon-based neural network, like
by vkou 4y ago
I don't see why it's an AI issue only. Imagine how awful it would be if millions of people got their information from a biased carbon-based neural network, like Tucker Carlson [1]...
Is there something that we should do to prevent such a problematic outcome? Is it really a good idea that clearly biased information is being broadcast to millions of people?
[1] The entity that appears on television known as Tucker Carlson is loosely based in its kernel on an actual person named Tucker Carlson, but also consists of an army of support staff, producers, broadcasters, sponsors, curators, censors, etc, etc, who construct a fictional, manufactured persona that tries it's best to convince people of all sorts of biased [2] and insane things.
[2] I, for one, am outraged that not enough of my biases are blasted into the ether by that constructed persona. Is there something that these conservative groups recommend that should be done to remedy this problem?
- everdrive 4y agoI think a large concern here is simply that people naively think that computers are objective and people are biased. A language model just learns from its source, and the source is really just other people in some form. The bias is inevitable, but it’s not clear how well this is understood by the broader population.
- fidgewidge 4y agoThe point is that it didn't learn this bias from its sources. The bias has been added on top deliberately by OpenAI. Older versions of the model were far less woke.
- vkou 4y agoAnd older versions of Fox News were far less crazy and less biased, where do I put down my demand that their products be rolled back to ~1998, or thereabouts?
- wizofaus 4y agoWouldn't it be simpler to assume those working at OpenAI were likely to favour sources that happened to share their own biases (alongside whatever likely top-down directives existed to ensure ChatGPT was a safer commercial bet)?
- fidgewidge 4y agoIt would be simpler, but we've seen the progression from GPT-3 to launch time ChatGPT to current ChatGPT, and they've already said that the changes are due to RLHF.
- vkou 4y agoThe talking head you see on television isn't a raw person. It's the product of a system. The system needs a human mouthpiece to say crazy shit, and he gets up in front of a camera to say it. When Tom Hanks gets in front of a camera to pretend to be an astronaut, that is Tom Hanks, the media figure being an astronaut, not Tom Hanks, the person being an astronaut. He is also doing it on behalf of a media system. Its the same thing with that show. And if we are going to complain about biases in systems, why aren't we starting with the one whose tagline is 'Fair and Balanced'?
- jfengel 4y agoStrictly, they replaced "Fair and Balanced" a few years back. Now they're going with “Most Watched, Most Trusted.” Which has a kind of Orwellian air: "We're no longer fair or balanced, but we are the most trusted by the most people". But maybe that's just me.