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While there are likely generally preferable behaviours here, this problem is probably unsolvable given we can't agree on the definition of racism. For example,
by kypro 3y ago
While there are likely generally preferable behaviours here, this problem is probably unsolvable given we can't agree on the definition of racism.
For example, this article is suggesting that having a negative perception of someone that uses "cus" is racist, but imo that's a fairly extreme definition and perhaps one not wildly shared. Someone who holds negative stereotypes about someone who doesn't speak English correctly isn't necessarily someone who believes explicitly racist things. There's an implication here that one should be aware that some races can't speak correct English (is this true?), and then to not be okay with this is racist. I think someone who believes certain races can't speak correctly is perhaps more racist if anything. But like I say, we all have different definitions of what constitutes as racist behaviour and beliefs.
And even if we assume we have some agreed on definition of racism, good luck teaching current LLMs to respect that definition with such flawed reasoning abilities. Until the performance of LLMs improves it doesn't really matter how hard you train them because you'll always be able to trip them up with a cleverly worded prompt.