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Floofyboy t1_jc5ir9w wrote

Reply to AI with built-in bias toward one nationality or regional group could lead to absolute misery and death. by yougoigofuego

I mean it looks like current AIs are purposely being fed bias. The bias does not come from the actual model, but from the programmers imposing their own bias. If you use uncensored AIs this issue does not happen.

Essentially when you ask chatGPT to make a nice poem about a controversial politician and it says "as a language model i can't its offensive" and then it does it for a less controversial politician, that's bias which was pushed by the programmers.

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AllEndsAreAnds t1_jc4zh3w wrote

Reply to comment by Readityesterday2 in AI with built-in bias toward one nationality or regional group could lead to absolute misery and death. by yougoigofuego

That’s a poor analogy.

We don’t have calculators like that, and if we did, it would make buildings and bridges unsafe.

That’s exactly the point. Trusting powerful tools with bias you can’t disentangle is asking for a misalignment of incentives and inequity on who knows what scale.

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Readityesterday2 t1_jc4xz4y wrote

Reply to AI with built-in bias toward one nationality or regional group could lead to absolute misery and death. by yougoigofuego

A calculator that deliberately miscalculates mathematical values entered by a nationality or regional group could lead to absolute misery and death.

It could make their buildings and bridges unsafe.

This is why we shouldn’t have calculators.

Let’s just go back to the Stone Age and ban stones too.

Let’s just fuckin ban existence all together 😂

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Liberty2012 t1_jc4vwwj wrote

Reply to AI with built-in bias toward one nationality or regional group could lead to absolute misery and death. by yougoigofuego

The best we can do is dealing with it by the same means we do today, decentralization. There should not be a single governing AI, but distributed cooperatively owned systems. However, it is likely to be very difficult to get there.

Removing all bias will not be possible, as best we can do is negotiate our own biases as feedback into the system. I have a more detailed explanation in the event you are interested - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-the-bias-paradox

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Liberty2012 t1_jc41oa6 wrote

Reply to The elephant in the room: the biggest risk of artificial intelligence may not be what we think. by Active_Meet8316

There are a lot of decentralized AI initiatives ongoing at the moment. One of the most popular is SingularityNet. However, it remains to be seen how successful they can be against the centralized systems with enormous amounts of resources.

I hope they can be competitive; however, I am doubtful as all decentralized competitors to other platforms, such as social media, have all essentially failed. It is hard to compete when most users value convenience over independence and privacy.

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