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  • lily33@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•The 'bias machine': Undecided voters in the US who turn to Google may see dramatically different views of the world – even when they're asking the exact same question
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    1 month ago

    Type in "Is Kamala Harris a good Democratic candidate

    …and any good search engine will find results containing keywords such as “Kamala Harris”, “Democratic”, “candidate”, and “good”.

    […] you might ask if she’s a “bad” Democratic candidate instead

    In that case, of course the search engine will find results containing keywords such as “Kamala Harris”, “Democratic”, “candidate”, and “bad”.

    So the whole premise that, “Fundamentally, that’s an identical question” is just bullshit when it comes to searching. Obviously, when you put in the keyword “good”, you’ll find articles containing “good”, and if you put in the keyword “bad”, you’ll find articles containing “bad” instead.

    Google will find things that match the keywords that you put in. So does DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Yahoo, whatever. That is what a good search engine is supposed to do.

    I can assure you, when search engines stop doing that, and instead try to give “balanced” results, according to whatever opaque criteria for “balanced” their company comes up with, that will be the real problem.

    I don’t like Google, and only use google when other search engines fail. But this article is BS.

  • lily33@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
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    4 months ago

    It’s not an article about LLMs not using dialects. In fact, they have learned said dialects and will use them if asked.

    What they did was, ask the LLM to suggest adjectives associated with sentences - and it would associate more aggressive or negative adjectives with African dialect.

    Seems like not a bias by AI models themselves, rather a reflection of the source material.

    All (racial) bias in AI models is actually a reflection of the training data, not of the modelling.

  • lily33@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why hasn't The Satanic Temple used the Don't Say Gay bill against Republicans?
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    10 months ago

    Because it’s not a very easy case. In fact, there is no real case.

    1. It’s not just a stretch, but a huge leap, to claim that using “he” or “she” counts as “instruction […] on sexual orientation or gender identity”.
    2. And even if you did manage that, you also have to argue that it’s also “not age appropriate”.
    3. And if you managed that as well somehow, you have the problem that judges can take into account things like the intent of the lawmakers, and what’s reasonable, not just the raw text of the law.