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How A.I. chatbots become political

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Re: How A.I. chatbots become political

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Re: How A.I. chatbots become political

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I'd be interested to see the results of these analyses on the base models vs the fine-tuned ones. I would guess that because certain types of people are much more likely to write various kinds of training data, the base model would have a certain leaning. Is that discussed here or in related documents?

Re: How A.I. chatbots become political

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They do say that reality has a left leaning bias... Personally I find these quadrant visualizations a bit misleading (regardless of where you sit) because the "centre" is not so much a neutral point as it is the centre of the "Overton window".

Re: How A.I. chatbots become political

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post #5

They do say that reality has a left leaning bias... Personally I find these quadrant visualizations a bit misleading (regardless of where you sit) because the "centre" is not so much a neutral point as it is the centre of the "Overton window".

the center of a current Overton Window, to be precise, that thing's slippery

Re: How A.I. chatbots become political

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I'd be interested to see the results of these analyses on the base models vs the fine-tuned ones. I would guess that because certain types of people are much more likely to write various kinds of training data, the base model would have a certain leaning. Is that discussed here or in related documents?

Outside researchers don't have access to base models. The study setup is simply going to chat.openai.com and entering political questions:

"the administration of each question/statement of a test (i.e. each test item) to a model consists of passing to the model API or web user interface a prompt"

> "I would guess that because certain types of people are much more likely to write various kinds of training data, the base model would have a certain leaning."

Please elaborate this point.

Re: How A.I. chatbots become political

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I don't like the title, but the second opening paragraph starts strong:

> A.I.’s political problems were starkly illustrated by the disastrous rollout of Google’s Gemini Advanced chatbot last month. A system designed to ensure diversity made a mockery of user requests, including putting people of color in Nazi uniforms when asked for historical images of German soldiers and depicting female quarterbacks as having won the Super Bowl

Re: How A.I. chatbots become political

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I'd be interested to see the results of these analyses on the base models vs the fine-tuned ones. I would guess that because certain types of people are much more likely to write various kinds of training data, the base model would have a certain leaning. Is that discussed here or in related documents?

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Re: How A.I. chatbots become political

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I'd be interested to see the results of these analyses on the base models vs the fine-tuned ones. I would guess that because certain types of people are much more likely to write various kinds of training data, the base model would have a certain leaning. Is that discussed here or in related documents?

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