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Which Humans? (2023)

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Post by catigula »

memoriuaysj wrote: post #5
mncharity wrote: post #4

Since the page didn't load for me several times, and the title is ambiguous, here's the Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently made vast advances in both generating and analyzing textual data. Technical reports often compare LLMs’ outputs with “human” performance on various tests. Here, we ask, “Which humans?” Much of the existing literature largely ignores the fact that humans are a cultural species wi…

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The implicit subtext of 'WEIRD' is "these people are amazing and that's weird" tbh.

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Post by didgetmaster »

Surprise, Surprise. LLMs will respond according to the set of data that their model was trained on!

While just about every LLM is trained on data that far surpasses the output of just one person, or even a decent sized group; it will still reflect the average sentiment of the corpus of data fed into it.

If the bulk of the training data was scraped from websites created in 'WEIRD' countries, then it's responses will largely mimic their culture.

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Post by levocardia »

I think it is mostly a good thing that LLMs have "WEIRD" values. We are at a very fortuitous point in history, where the modal position in extant written text is classically liberal and believes in respecting human rights. Virtually no other point in history would be that way, and a true modal position among values and moral beliefs held among all 8 billion people currently alive on earth -- much less the modal position among all ~100 billion humans ever -- would, I'd hazard to guess, not be a very nice place to end up.

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didgetmaster wrote: post #12

Surprise, Surprise. LLMs will respond according to the set of data that their model was trained on! While just about every LLM is trained on data that far surpasses the output of just one person, or even a decent sized group; it will still reflect the average sentiment of the corpus of data fed into it. If the bulk of the training data was scraped from websites created in 'WEIRD' countries, then it's responses will l…

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