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Reality leans left in many respects, principally the non-economic ones. It's a simple consequence of the same trend of overall social and educational progress
by CamperBob2 4mo ago
Reality leans left in many respects, principally the non-economic ones. It's a simple consequence of the same trend of overall social and educational progress that allowed these models to be developed in the first place. There is a reason they came out of San Francisco, and not Russia, Iran, or Oklahoma.
To get a right-biased response from an LLM, you have to deliberately bias it... which is exactly what Musk did. Never mind the politics, that's just shitty engineering.
- throwitaway222 4mo ago- Just nevermind
- otterley 4mo agoThis paragraph makes no sense whatsoever.
- javascriptfan69 4mo ago>left wing == gay people supremacy Yeah I can see why LLMs don't reflect your world view (it's fucking stupid)
- bluegatty 4mo agoThis fake intellectual nonsense is exactly why there should be deep institutional scrutiny of sota models. Elon is the worst person to do this but he's 'not wrong' that there needs to be scrutiny
- xyzelement 4mo agoThere was a thread yesterday about how "the left" is driving the fertility rate collapse - so I am not sure the case for "reality leaning left" is so clear cut.
- incrudible 4mo agoLLMs will tell you, without qualification (like “according to some school of thought”) that a woman is “any person that identifies as a woman”, which is, to say the least, deeply politically biased by recent trends.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoLLMs will tell you, without qualification (like “according to some school of thought”) that a woman is “any person that identifies as a woman”, which is, to say the least, deeply politically biased by recent trends. A perfect example of what I'm talking about. The lines we draw for ourselves generally do not exist in nature. Nature is full of examples of species with hermaphroditic individuals, homosexual and bisexual individuals, asexual ones, and individuals with enough other attributes to render LGBTQA...-style acronyms pointless. The idea that there is something somehow politically or morally objectionable about someone whose hormones are aligned in a direction opposite their chromosomes is something we made up. Or more likely, something that people you voted for made up, in an effort to encourage more people with uninformed beliefs similar to yours to vote for them.
- incrudible 4mo agoThis has nothing to do with the belief that a woman is simply someone who identifies as a woman. According to this belief, the following statement is sufficient to become a woman: I am a woman. I think this belief is absurd prima facie and would have been recognized as such by virtually anyone, say, ten years ago. I am not a woman. Furthermore, I do not believe that you believe I have been a woman while typing out that sentence in the middle. Do you?
- CamperBob2 4mo agoWhatever. It's none of my business what you call yourself. And none of the government's.
- incrudible 4mo ago
- simondotau 4mo agoReality doesn't have a left-wing bias, it has a liberal bias. (FWIW my experience is that while Grok is more likely to express the right wing perspective on a topic, it's almost invariably as a counterpoint alongside the left wing perspective. I never got it to give an exclusively right wing take. But I do have to regularly prompt ChatGPT et al to elucidate on the right wing view. IMHO I don't want AI to have a left OR right wing bias. Wherever there is a genuine political — not factual — dispute, teaching the controversy is the appropriate response.)