Comment on AI’s hidden bias: Chatbots can influence opinions without trying, study finds
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 days agoI mean, this already happens overtly.
Like if you ask DeepSeek “tell me about the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghur people in Xinjiang” and it recites back :
In the Xinjiang region, the government has implemented a series of measures aimed at promoting economic and social development, maintaining social stability, fostering ethnic unity, and combating terrorism and extremism. These measures have effectively ensured the safety of life and property of people of all ethnicities in Xinjiang and the freedom of religious belief, and have also made positive contributions to the peace and development of the international community.
Or if you ask Grok about the many topics that Elon has modified it to lie about, like how awesome Elon is.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Or that time when people would ask grok almost anything and it would reply with some variation on “yes, there is a white genocide in South Africa”