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> Yes but with AI, in principle, there is more wriggle room to present a spectrum of opinions on a single topic. I mean, this sounds impartial but isn't. If yo
by MountDoom 1y ago
> Yes but with AI, in principle, there is more wriggle room to present a spectrum of opinions on a single topic.
I mean, this sounds impartial but isn't. If you have an article on the planet Earth and present a spectrum of opinions on whether it's round or flat, you're not being balanced; you're implicitly supporting flat-Earthers and their trollish beliefs by taking them seriously.
This has countless parallels in political discourse. Trade flat-Earthers for (actual) neo-Nazis; it's probably not a "spectrum of opinions" you want to broadcast without passing any judgment. It's not the role of an encyclopedia to be a free speech platform.
I'm not really saying this to defend political articles on Wikipedia. It's just that I don't think you fix it by taking an LLM trained on Wikipedia, and telling it to regenerate the articles "without bias".
- yorwba 1y agoWikipedia actually has multiple articles on flat Earth beliefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth Presenting a spectrum of opinions doesn't mean you have to avoid giving the impression of passing judgment. If an opinion conflicts with available evidence, you can just acknowledge that the opinion exists and give the evidence against it.