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LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English (www.nature.com)

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Pretty much, it was trained on human writing, then people are all surprised when it has human biases.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

An LLM needs to evaluate and modify the preliminary output before actually sending it. In the context of a human mind that’s called thinking before opening your mouth.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who among us couldn't benefit from a little more of that?

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Humans aren’t always very good at that, and LLMs were trained on stuff written by humans, so here we are.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Exciting new product from the tech industry: Fruit from the poisoned tree!