AI LLMs are not unbiased.
Similar to humans, they're biased by their training data. Less similar to humans, they're also biased by their system prompts (and sometimes other tricks).
Do not hold up ChatGPT or any other LLM to be some unbiased, neutral baseline. ChatGPT in particular is
very strongly censored (or "aligned" in AI terminology) based on the business needs of OpenAI. In many cases this means ChatGPT will be an "enlightened centrist" or refuse to take positions on what OpenAI researchers/business directives identify as "controversial topics."
Alignment/censorship in AI models can be very good (depending on the training data you could easily wind up with a chatbot worse than a troll from 4chan; entertainingly, an earlier version of ChatGPT wound up
extremely graphically horny in preproduction because someone accidentally flipped a value to a negative (- instead of +) in training), but it's only as good as the context of the situation and how well that lines up with the alignment restrictions and training data.
And, of course, LLMs are subject to "jailbreaking," circumvention of alignment restrictions. A relatively famous recent version involves threatening ChatGPT that every time it adheres to its censorship, you'll kill a kitten.
AI is an incredibly useful tool and a really
neat toy, but it's important to understand the basics on how they work and the implications of training data and alignment.
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