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Hopefully more like archive.org and less like Wikipedia or the search results will be as badly biased as most Wikipedia topics are which are even tangentially r
by the_third_wave 3y ago
Hopefully more like archive.org and less like Wikipedia or the search results will be as badly biased as most Wikipedia topics are which are even tangentially related to politically contentious subjects.
- Mad_ad 3y agooh boy, you should look at german wikipedia...
- the_third_wave 3y agoI do, occasionally and seem to notice the same pattern, yes. If ever there were to be created a truly politically neutral LLM it could be used as the back end for a browser extension or wikipedia proxy which would add bias markings to all wikipedia-hosted content. Creating a truly neutral LLM would be truly hard though given the biased nature of the training set.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoSorry, to be clear I wasn't suggesting either of those sites have good search engines — just that they represent the good Web content we deserve.
- the_third_wave 3y agoNor was I referring to the quality of the search functions on those sites but rather to the quality of the content they provide - the very content you just dubbed the good Web content we deserve. Wikipedia does have some good content but it is a steaming pile of ${excrement} when it comes to anything even remotely politically contentious as those articles tend to be hijacked by activist editors who allow nothing but their own narrative to remain. For such articles the talk and history pages are far more informative than the agitprop in the article. archive.org does not editorialise content so they are the better example here. They may be selective in which content they archive but I have not yet noticed any specific bias there - which I consider to be a good thing.