Study: AI edits can change meaning of users' drafts
Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”
Hypervisible 78“One of the co-authors, Prof Sandra Wachter, compared the effect of AIs introducing bias into social media posts to ‘polluting the forest’”.
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)39"instructed to preserve the original sense." Ah yes; good thing LLMs were built to comprehend tone, nuance, and intent.
Lil Mr Big Boy Man25How are people not understanding that the machine cannot conceptualize? Words are just a series of squiggles, they have no ability to conceive of what those words represent as symbols.
C.V. Danes9I wouldn't want to accuse the model builders of intentionally adding bias to the code, but sometimes [most times] things are exactly as they appear.
Kai TechnoLust (he/him)6I worked at a company last year that went “AI Native” and all the meetings were recorded and summarized by LLMs and the summaries went into a “Codex” that was the “source of truth” for the company. Except it would frequently leave out “not” in summaries so the opposite information was recorded.
Djoran Keil2Wait... so... you're saying... the 'AI' is making me hate them MORE?! I mean, that kinda makes me like... oh wait, there it is!
Not (A.) I.145When the AI boosters say “AI is the future” this is what they mean. A form of homogeneous “knowledge" production that is not knowledge at all, but words in a casing of biases that privileges the powerful, regurgitated so frequently that it flattens the intricacies of embodied experience.
Oisín McGann142You can't tell an LLM not to 'hallucinate', to be honest, or avoid mistakes, or stay faithful to the source material. The wrong answers are created by exactly the same process as the right ones, it can't tell them apart. It's like giving it the instruction: 'Do this, but don't do it by doing it.'
Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe100I cannot believe how many times we need to remind people that there is no such thing as neutral technology, but especially not the current crop of LLMs which have some incredible underlying biases and agendas built into how they are constructed
eleniel90It can’t “preserve the original sense”! It doesn’t comprehend meaning!!!! AaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAA
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮85I keep hearing from people that these models reduce bias and just about every study I’ve seen shows the opposite 🤷
Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her)47Please inderstand LLMs don’t know what you mean when you prompt “preserve the original sense.” They are probability generators. They literally do not understand what *any* words mean.
e.w. niedermeyer39how cool that we don't even need to think for ourselves anymore
Thomas Cheney 6shocked to discover that the assembly of words by virtue of probability rather than you know intellect, has an impact on meaning
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱4STOP USING THE THEFTBOT FASHY MACHINE
Stacy King4Ah yes. This is really going to help reverse our pancakes/waffles reading comprehension problems. /s, just in case
