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ChatGPT is Woke

Two articles today in the Davis Vanguard about ChatGPT. 

But ChatGPT is woke:

ChatGPT goes woke!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11646463/Conservatives-test-AI-ChatGPT-uses-responses-prove-going-woke.html

One quote:

"Developing anything, software or not, requires compromise and making choices, political choices, about who a system will work for and whose values it will represent."

I certainly don't agree with some of the political views used as examples in the article, but clearly a political bias is shown when the machine calls out writing about subjects as being 'inappropriate'.  If you can't see how this could so easily be manipulated by whomever is in power, you aren't being real about the concerns.

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7 responses to “ChatGPT is Woke”

  1. Keith

    Yes Alan, as we’re finding with the Elon Musk disclosure of the Twitter files there is much left leaning bias with the moderation and oversight of most of the social media networks today. Everyone should be up in arms about this whether you lean left or right.

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  2. darell

    (making NO comment on ChatGPT, only the concept of wokeness)
    I have found over and over that “woke” means different things to different people. And I find myself wishing that the term would just go away. Apparently its current general use is to mean something along the lines of “I don’t agree with you on what’s important or appropriate” Therefor, you are woke. (and thus, I alone know what is “reasonable?”)
    In some contexts a person should be quite proud to be awake to the issues we face. (isn’t that where it came from?) In that case. “woke” is the opposite of “asleep at the stick.” But of course then there’s the competing context of being waaay too politically-correct. Or of being the appropriate-police, I guess. Perhaps there’s a case to be made of being too awake. And maybe decaf is in order.
    In the end, I never really know what people mean when they accuse other people or concepts of “wokeness”. I only know that it is always meant as an insult. And that it is so wildly subjective as to be impossible for me to determine the degree, the trajectory or the point of the insult.

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  3. Ron O

    It’s ultimately a machine, and therefore has no ability to be biased or harmful.
    Much like Hal.

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  4. Ron O

    I’d look up the definition of “woke”, but I’m afraid that the “wokees” might have already altered the definition in “official” sources by now.
    I’m also afraid to look up the definition of “woman”, at this point. Regardless, “I’m not a biologist”, so I’ll leave that up to the professionals.

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  5. Alan C. Miller

    DDD: Yes, like so many, an insult. It gets people upset so they read the article and comment emotionally. Guilty, as charged.
    But the point is non-political-sided. This can go either way. Just happens most tech giants are left-leaning, so interesting the AI seems to have left-leaning views.
    But imagine similar that a right-leaning government gets a hold of the ‘official’ AI of the day. And opposite of the article I cited, this AI won’t write an article on transgender woman competing as women in sports because that would be ‘inappropriate’ to discuss.
    My point is not what your views are, but in awareness as to how not-able-to-truly-be-neutral any such tech could be. It seems so powerful, but this is going to get WAY ugly.
    I imagine one of the outcomes will literally be a right-bias version of ChatGPT. ChatDJT maybe? 😐

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  6. Chris Griffith

    This is the future of chat gpt
    https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bdmv/judge-used-chatgpt-to-make-court-decision

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  7. darell

    Thanks, ACM. Great response… that clears up some of this for me!

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