AI chatbots are at risk of spreading government restrictions on online speech, a new study says
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatbots-censorship-bias-free-speech-fed8fdbf90751c10fe77b77832e0ffba
AI chatbots are at risk of spreading government restrictions on online speech, a new study says
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatbots-censorship-bias-free-speech-fed8fdbf90751c10fe77b77832e0ffba
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Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of China’s leader, Thailand’s king, or Saudi Arabia’s crown prince — and it will decline, reports the Associated Press.
That’s “a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday,” their article points out: AI systems are more than twice as likely to refuse to product critical material if it’s about a restrictive world leader or government. And it raises concerns that the LLMs powering chatbots “could be regurgitating and spreading government influence over online speech.”
I like it how now one can publish a whole study based on … talks with chatbots.
How is this surprising to anyone?
The slow chilling of free speech. Public institutions can’t restrict speech (or at least that’s what their mandates say), and that’s a problem for the ruling class, so they turn to the private industry to steer the conversation
the fact that it’s “more than twice as likely” is kinda alarming if you think about it. like the bias isn’t subtle at all. these models are being trained on data shaped by whatever govts feel like silencing, and most ppl will never even notice