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Nature: Al generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect (www.nature.com)

submitted 3 months ago by antifuchs@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this is what they are designed to do when used in hiring and criminal justice contexts. They would not be getting used if they did anything else.

Nicely demonstrated by the researchers, but can anybody say they are surprised?

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

I don’t think anyone is surprised, but brace yourself for the next round of OpenAI and peers claiming to fix this issue.