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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] 2 points 4 hours ago

The problem using AI like you would try to use a search engine. When people write books or make videos or art, you as a consumer can evaluate them critically -- what is their point of view? What are their biases? Can they be trusted?

Gen AI is a tool that always answers with confidence, and the makers and/or hosters of the tool have a responsibility to keep people from using it to do harm. 404 media has written all kinds of articles about how people have used it in harmful ways -- making abusive images of people, or impersonating stalking victims, or filtering out resumes that don't match the pattern of a college-educated white boy without explicitly saying it, and all kinds of stuff like that. As a society we have to protect the most vulnerable and hold these companies accountable for what they enable people to do with their products.

If you self-host an open tool and have control over it, you assume that responsibility.