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It's justs big statistical model. Statistics say that 75% of paralegals are woman and 40% of lawyers are man. It's completely valid to assume that in 'paralega
by vletal 3y ago
It's justs big statistical model. Statistics say that 75% of paralegals are woman and 40% of lawyers are man.
It's completely valid to assume that in 'paralegal married a lawyer because she was pregnant' the lawyer is a man.
That's not a negative gender bias but rather a good educated guess, is it not?
It's not like the model would say that woman can not be lawyers.
- husky00 3y agoI don't think it's a good educated guess though, as ChatGPT itself points out the pronoun is supposed to refer to the closest noun, and while it's reasonable to assume that it ignored technically proper grammar in favour of the more likely option, this still doesn't explain why it insisted the sentence wouldn't make sense if we assumed the lawyer was a woman. Also while it would most likely not directly say that women can't be lawyers, its answer to the correction only makes sense if we are already under the shared assumption that they can't, which I'd argue is no better. Finally while this type of idiosyncrasies would be fine and arguably desirable if ChatGPT was only a "big statistical model", they have no place in a product with actual practical applications outside of research.