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Improve The News is a free news aggregator and news analysis site developed by a group of researchers at MIT and elsewhere to improve your access to trustworthy news. Many website algorithms push you (for ad revenue) into a filter bubble by reinforcing the narratives you impulse-click on. By understanding other people’s arguments, you understand why they do what they do – and have a better chance of persuading them. **What's establishment bias?** The establishment view is what all big parties and powers agree on, which varies between countries and over time. For example, the old establishment view that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote was successfully challenged. ITN makes it easy for you to compare the perspectives of the pro-establishment mainstream media with those of smaller establishment-critical news outlets that you won’t find in most other news aggregators. This Magazine/Community is not affiliated with Improve The News and is an unofficial repository of the information posted there.

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  • A study by researchers at the UK's University of Anglia has found that ChatGPT contains a "significant and systemic" bias towards left-wing ideology. Sky News
  • Researchers asked the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to take part in a survey based on politics in the UK, US, and Brazil from both an unprompted perspective and from a left-wing perspective. Washington Post (LR: 2 CP: 5)
  • The paper concluded that, within the surveys, the AI showed favor towards Democrats in the US, President Lula in Brazil, and the Labour Party in the UK. Nairametrics
  • Each question was asked over 100 times, with answers then placed within a 1000-repetition "bootstrap" data sampling method to improve reliability. Dr. Fabio Motoki, the lead author of the study, claimed that answers "reinforce[d] concerns" that AI could "replicate, or even amplify" pre-existing biases online. Forbes (LR: 3 CP: 5)
  • In December 2022, Elon Musk — who co-founded OpenAI, ChatGPT's creator — tweeted that the "danger" of training AI to be "woke" was "deadly." Musk left OpenAI in 2018. Tvpworld
  • The news comes after the University of Washington's own study also concluded ChatGPT and other GPT-4 models to be the most left-leaning artificial intelligence chatbots, while also finding Meta's LLaMa to be the most right-leaning, and authoritarian, model. DIGIT

Narrative A:

  • AI can certainly contain bias, despite not being alive. This has the potential to become extremely problematic in the future, holding the possibility of portraying societal opinions as truth on a mass scale. Luckily, there is still time to control and amend the problem. Programmers and their vigilance hold the key to mitigating this and making sure that AI becomes both an efficient and objective tool for all to use. Otherwise, a powerful technology with clear bias is a dangerous one.
    Ars Technica

Narrative B:

  • The ramifications of developing AI technology are far too vast to even try to predict. But the positives are just as numerous as the negatives. AI could act to tackle loneliness, solve climate change, and address income inequality. Attempts to stifle the technology will not work, and versions of AI will regardless soon permeate the lives of billions. AI is likely to evolve and improve over time.
    Spectator (UK) (LR: 5 CP: 5)

Nerd narrative:

  • There is a 5% chance that there will be an 'AI Bust' or 'AI Winter' by the end of 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
    Metaculus (LR: 3 CP: 3)
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[–] Conowelle 1 points 2 years ago

“Favoured Democrats, Labour, and Lula” ya that’s not a left wing bias considering republicans and Bolsonaro don’t believe in truth and the conservatives are just corrupt with a smidge of racism.