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What's your opinion in bias and censorship in LLMs? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently watched a Norwegian TV show where they pointed out that you can't even get ChatGPT to show you a boob. So I decided to test it, but being less explicit.

I couldn't even get ChatGPT to generate a renaissance painting of a woman with an exposed breast, like Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.

After that I attempted to get it to recreate the painting. It did not want to copy that painting either for copyright issues.. A public domain painting, even when pointing it out and it agreeing it did not want to do it.

When I ask it questions in regards to politics it does not seem to fare well either.

I feel that using the service kinda "trains me" to self-censor, and tries to remain artificially unbiased in a way that is uncanny.

What are your opinions about censorship and bias from LLMs/AI?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's worth distinguishing between censorship and limitations.

Deepseek essentially wipes out events or concepts in order to hide them, obviously without saying so. That's bad

When, say, OpenAI removes/blocks porn/nudity and says so, that's maybe not aligned with your values, but it's not hiding anything.

The problem here is, we don't know how large each category is for each model. I'm 100% sure there's knowledge blocked/removed from Chatgpt without ever publicly saying so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I have tested Deepseek and have found it to be pretty open about censorship in at least many topics. I asked it some questions about China and it mentioned issues with Xinjiang, Uyghurs, and Taiwan. I did not bring it up, or try to trick it into talking about it. It was mentioned as some future challenges China will face.

It did not share explicitly what those issues were, but that those are sensitive issues.

In other words it does acknowledge that there is censorship, I doubt that it is fully open about all the censorship, and potential bias if it has any baked in.

I did not experience any obvious bias or censorship.

I guess questions regarding Tiananmen square would be censored though, but how not asked.