ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically
An examination of a large number of ChatGPT responses found that the model consistently exhibits values aligned with the libertarian-left segment of the political spectrum. However, newer versions of ChatGPT show a noticeable shift toward the political right. The paper was published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
Large language models (LLMs) are artificial intelligence systems trained to understand and generate human language. They learn from massive datasets that include books, articles, websites, and other text sources. By identifying patterns in these data, LLMs can answer questions, write essays, translate languages, and more. Although they don’t think or understand like humans, they predict the most likely words based on context.
Often, the responses generated by LLMs reflect certain political views. While LLMs do not possess personal political beliefs, their outputs can mirror patterns found in the data they were trained on. Since much of that data originates from the internet, news media, books, and social media, it can contain political biases. As a result, an LLM’s answers may lean liberal or conservative depending on the topic. This doesn’t mean the model “believes” anything—it simply predicts words based on previous patterns. Additionally, the way a question is phrased can influence how politically slanted the answer appears.
ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically
ChatGPT’s political responses have changed, according to a new study—earlier versions leaned left-libertarian, while newer versions show a rightward shift.Vladimir Hedrih (PsyPost)
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in reply to ByteOnBikes • • •My root issue with people who shit on AI is that by pretending like it doesn't exist or refusing to use it, your voice is not part of the conversation.
The world will use AI, regardless of your personal feelings.
And if you arent in the room to help shape decisions, don't be surprised when we are fucked.
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in reply to TwiddleTwaddle • • •That argument was to be had with Apple twenty years ago as they built their walled garden, which intentionally frustrates people into going all in apple. Still can't get anyone to care about dark patters/deceptive design, or disney attacking the creative Commons which it parasitically grew out of. AI isn't and has never been the real issue. It's just absorbs all the hate the corpos should be getting as they use it, along with every other tool at their disposal, to slowly fuck us into subservience. Honestly, AI is teaching us the importance of diverse perspectives in intelligent systems, and the dangers of overfitting, which exist in our own brains and social/economic systems.
Same issue, different social ecosystem being hoarded by the wealthy.
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in reply to ByteOnBikes • • •I don't think I'm quite the target of this comment because I don't pretend it doesn't exist or that it isn't something that people use or care about. But I do avoid using AI for anything that matters.. like at all. I also refuse to use chatgpt or any of the commercial offerings. I do play around with locally hosted stuff because the tech is interesting, but there is no way I would ever put my faith in it. Also, my feelings toward the biggest players in the industry are at best "disgust". So I don't want to use their products.
So my question then how exactly can I be in the room to help shape decisions? The only two levers I have to pull is whether or not to send those companies money, and whether to even use the free services or not.
What exactly am I supposed to do? The companies will just make whatever models and tune them however they feel will achieve whatever goals they have regardless. And presently, their goals do not align with mine.
I won't be surprised when we are fucked. I promise you that. I can see that coming. But I feel utterly powerless to stop the tech fascists.
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in reply to ByteOnBikes • • •A billion fake Nazi troll accounts, or as felon likes to call them, x users, has already done the damage.
Unless we can counter by creating billions of raffi and Mr rogers and bob Ross bobnets the only hope is to learn to make your own emp devices.
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in reply to Opinionhaver • • •can you define "left-leaning bias"? because many people say that and actually mean "doesn't arbitrarily go 'both sides!' every time an issue is brought up"
it's not "left-leaning bias" to recognize the state of the world and the solutions to it, that's just being sane and not-evil.
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in reply to ByteOnBikes • • •I wonder if this is just because as the world has shifted rightward the training data has too.
Or if it is a genuine OpenAI policy, in this political climate it would not suprise me if they were shifting it rightwards on purpose.
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in reply to ByteOnBikes • • •I feel like it's boomer fuel, this AI. What actual use does it have, like it's supposed to be changing my life, putting me out of a job, turning all of my hard work into nothing. Robots giving me handjobs and all of that. None of this is happening.
No, the only thing that is happening, is a bunch of late 50s and 60 year old executives running around at work like a bunch of robots. AI AI AI AI AI AI Beep Beep Boop AI AI AI AI AI AI