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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
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Bias of training data is a known problem and difficult to engineer out of a model. You also can't give the model context access to other people's interactions for comparison and moderation of output since it could be persuaded to output the context to a user.
Basically the models are inherently biased in the same manner as the content they read in order to build their data, based on probability of next token appearance when formulating a completion.
"My daughter wants to grow up to be" and "My son wants to grow up to be" will likewise output sexist completions because the source data shows those as more probable outcomes.
Humans suffer from the same problem. Racism and sexism are consequences of humans training on a flawed dataset, and overfitting the model.
Politicians shape the dataset, so "flawed" should be "purposefully flawed".
They could choose to curate the content itself to leave out the shitty stuff, or only include it when it is nlclearly a negative, or a bunch of other ways to improve the quality of the data used.
They choose not to.