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I think researchers are trying to make AI models more aware, but they are trained on a whole lot of human history, and that is going to be predominantly told from white male perspectives. Which means AI is going to act like that.

Women and people of color, you should probably treat AI like it’s that white guy who means well and thinks he’s woke but lacks the self-awareness to see he is 100% part of the problem. (I say this as a white guy who is 100% part of the problem, just hopefully with more self-awareness.)

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nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Everyone should treat ‘ai’ like a program that it is. Your guilt compex is irrelevant here.

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- MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Has nothing to do with guilt-complex. Why would I feel guilty for being privileged? I feel fortunate, and obliged to remain aware of that.
  
  Treating AI like a “program,” however, is a pretty useless lead in to what you really posted to say.
  
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  - nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Right, only you can dictate how people should treat chat bots, I will siphon your knowledge into my brain.
    
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- GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The program is statistically an average white guy that knows about a lot of things but doesn’t understand any of it soooooo I’m not even sure what point you thought you had
  
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  - nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Chat bot will impersonate whoever you’ll tell them to impersonate (as stated in the article), my point is pretty simple, people don’t need a guide when using a chat bot that tells them how they should treat and interact with it.
    
    I get it, that was just perfunctory self depreciation with intended audience being other first worlders.
    
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    SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    people don’t need a guide when using a chat bot that tells them how they should treat and interact with it.
    
    Then why are people always surprised to find out that chat bots will make shit up to answer their questions?
    
    People absolutely need a guide for using a chat bot, because people are idiots.
    
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    moomoomoo309@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Sure, who will it impersonate if you don’t? That’s where the bias comes in.
    
    And yes, they do need a guide, because the way chatbots behave is not intuitive or clear, there’s lots of weird emergent behavior in them even experts don’t fully understand (see OpenAI’s 4o sycophancy articles today). Chatbots’ behavior looks obvious, and in many cases it is…until it isn’t. There’s lots of edge cases.
    
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  - Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I resent your impugnment of copyeditors.
    
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    GammaGames@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    🤣
    
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- valkyrieangela@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If you feel guilty about this, you may be part of the problem
  
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Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There is no reason to even suggest that AI ‘means well’. It doesn’t mean anything, let alone well.

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- MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Of course. It’s an analogy. It is like someone who means well. It generates text from the default perspective, which is white guy with a bunch of effort to make it more diverse with a similar end result. The responses might sound woke but take a closer look and you’ll find the underlying bias.
  
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