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I'm a little tired of people complaining that DeepSeek won't answer questions about Tiananmen Square. Where was this energy when OpenAI refused to answer questions about US politics? Try asking Gemini about Donald Trump's felonies and see what it says.

(I am not equating Chinese bad things with Western bad things. But I am tired of the intentional blindness that we all sometimes have.)

@davidnjoku every LLM is inherently biased based on both the views of the team behind it and the materials it’s trained on.

How we’re this far down the “AI” conversation with so many people choosing to disregard that is somewhat alarming.

Of course next up is some LLM aggregator that uses its own model to query all the others then patch together a response taking into account all replies.

David Njoku

@wiredfire I'd love the honesty if people said, "I want an LLM that has the same biases as me." Instead we pretend that ours are good and theirs is bad.

A couple of years ago, Dall-E and Bard refused to generate images of Black doctors. They seemed to think that doctors had to be white. There were barely any complaints - until Google overcorrected and started generating images of Black founding fathers. And that made all the front pages. Hmm, strange.

@davidnjoku reminds me of the old “puzzler”:

A man and his son are in a car accident. They’re taken to hospital. The doctor steps back and says “I cannot treat this boy, he is my son”. How can this be?

Solution: women can be doctors..!

Alarming how many folk used to really be perplexed when that was posed.

We have such deep rooted biases and ignoring them is a Bad Idea™. Far better to be aware so we can consciously spot them.

@davidnjoku @wiredfire "I want an LLM that has the same biases as me" seems like it would turn very quickly into alternative fact laundering