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I don't need to read the article to know the bot is left leaning. There is just more left-leaning material online than other. As one grows older, one learns to

• DeusExMachina 4y ago
  > There is just more left-leaning material online than other Maybe, but the leftward lurk of ChatGPT refusing to answer certain question it had no problem answering before has been documented by many.
• Bootvis 4y ago
  How do you figure there is more left leaning material, is anyone keeping statistics. What exactly is left leaning?
  • tialaramex 4y ago
    Most people strongly believe they're correct, the universe disagrees and so their perception becomes that there must be some sort of bias, the alternative would be that they're wrong which they can't accept. Being able to accept that you're often wrong, without just taking some nihilistic stance like "I don't know if anything is real", is not easy, and we ought to admire it but on the whole we do not.
• Lutger 4y ago
  Another take on this is that rightwing has an outsized influence on society, and so-called left leaning is actually how most people orient themselves.
  • bluetomcat 4y ago
    It's the right-wing capitalists that promote left-wing narratives for the masses. It's called woke capitalism for a reason.
  • throwaway4aday 4y ago
    That should show up pretty clearly at the ballot box and yet the US remains divided and most other countries go back and forth between left and right leaning parties every election or two.
    • krapp 4y ago
      The US electoral system is designed to favor rural, thus primarily conservative and Christian, votes over urban as a vestigial remnant of compromises to keep slave-owning states in the union, gerrymandering, etc. The majority of Americans live in cities and have political views which would be considered "leftist" in US parlance - they support Roe V. Wade, gun control, health care reform, etc. That, in practice, the US appears "divided" at all is only due to the outsized influence of the right and rural voters.
      • meany 4y ago
        It's not so much a bias of rural over urban, but lower population states versus larger states. You could be urban and just be smaller in size. This part of the "great compromise" was actually for smaller, non-slave states like Delaware. Virgina, the largest state in the nation at the time and a slave state, proposed the Virgina Plan, which proposed the creation of a bicameral national legislature, or a legislature consisting of two houses, in which the “rights of suffrage” in both houses would be proportional to the size of the state. Small states objected, because they'd had equal representation under the articles of confederation. https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/equal-state-representation.htm https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-... The overall final compromise did include compromises to slave owning states, but this vestigial is not due to those compromises. In fact, they were against it.
    • cyberge99 4y ago
      The US Republican party hasn’t won the popular Presidential vote in the last 8 elections or so.
      • yucky 4y ago
• wongarsu 4y ago
  Moreover GPT is trained on material in multiple languages, so having ChatGPT have a neutral bias in the context of American politics would be very strange. Achieving that would probably put it pretty far right on a global scale.
  • Semaphor 4y ago
    > Achieving that would probably put it pretty far right on a global scale. Would it? Compared to Europe, sure. But I always had the impression that most of Asia skewed rather further right?
    • bakuninsbart 4y ago
      The American right is insofar an outlier as it is deeply distrustful of the state. Many conservative movements across the world tend to be more statist than their leftist compatriots. In general, right-left is a pretty insufficient category for classifying politics, something like milieu theory
    • watwut 4y ago
      I think that just trying to project strict left-right dichotomy as contemporary American politics produced on other countries is already bad start. It is not something universal, it is being exported to some extend, but still. The aliances elsewhere and political splits dont copy America.
      • Semaphor 4y ago
        I do agree with that.
    • threatofrain 4y ago
      I imagine that conservatism across Asia looks very different than conservatism in the US; i.e., questions of trust in government, whether COVID is serious, or whether people should own guns.
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• Terretta 4y ago
  > left leaning What US calls center left much of world calls center right. Not sure about labeling the global bell curve of written material as "bias" since, almost by definition, the LLM is unbiased, being a compression of global view -- so accusations of bias against probabilistic answers from the corpus would actually telling us about the bias of the beholder.
  • itsyaboi 4y ago
    > What US calls center left much of world calls center right. Citation needed.
• vannevar 4y ago
  Had to downvote this, it's just too superficial to be the top comment on this article. What is "left-leaning content?" Why is there so much more of it than (presumably) right-leaning content? And "don't rely entirely on what you read online" is overly simplistic advice.