Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoIn a (code) perfect world, wouldn’t an LLMs “personality” and biases be aligned with the median of its training set?
In other words…stupid-in/stupid-out. As long as the (median of) input data is racist and sexist, the output data would be equally bigoted.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I do think the average person openly perpetuates racist stereotypes due to the pressure of systemic racism. Not that they intend to, and their beliefs frequently contradict their actions because they just don’t notice that they are going along with it.
Like the average person will talk about the ‘bad part of town’ in a way that implies the bad part is due to being where ‘those people’ live.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I don’t disagree, but that’s probably closer to implicit bias than overt bigotry. When people talk about the “bad part of town”, often it’s the “bad part” as a result of perpetual systemic racism, and the concerns of going there is more rooted in personal safety (or at least the perception of it).
And there’s also the anxiety of being the cultural and demographic antithesis of everyone around you. That’s gotta be some sub-type of agoraphobia or something.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would say that the “bad part of town” usually has overlap with the poorer part of town, regardless of what skin colour people have there. Of course, especially in the US, there’s significant overlap between economic status and skin colour. I just hate how the typical American view on “race” is projected onto other countries.
Americans typically have this hang-up on “race” that you really don’t find anywhere else. A lot of places you have talk about “ethnicity” or similar, but the American fascination with categorising people by their skin colour and then using that to make generalisations is pretty unique.