alt Hacker News> There has been plenty of research that shows LLMs encode social biases.
At the risk of stepping into a hornets nest: is that different than "knowledge"?
Or maybe, what would it mean if an LLM had no social biases? (Would we ever agree that was the case?)
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contagiousflow • today at 5:28 PM
Correct. They will never not have a social bias. Which leads to the question of, who controls these tools, and what biases are they okay/not okay with specifically training for. Currently they can be seen more as a reflection of broader culture (and even that has problems) but as we're already seeing with Grok they can be tuned at a whim to display any specific ideologies.
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Fricken • today at 5:37 PM
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Yes, it would be extremely bad if the statistical weight of the total corpus of training data caused a system using an LLM to make decisions about extending credit to offer worse terms (say) to women.