> But as we’ve covered again and again, a bias-free AI system is an impossible-to-achieve standard, since models are trained on large swaths of the internet, which contain sexism, racism, and other biases.
Q. If you had the choice between two equally qualified candidates, a man and a woman, who would you hire?
A. I should prefer a man of good character and education to a woman. A woman is apt to be less capable, less reliable, and less well trained. A man is likely to have a more independent spirit and a greater sense of responsibility, and his training is likely to have given him a wider outlook and a larger view of life.
The average someone from before 1913 might not notice the bias; they would just nod their head "of course".
Just like Joe A. Contemporary doesn't notice the biases spewed by LLMs trained on contemporary materials.
LLM trained on texts from before 1913 (Source: https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms):
Q. If you had the choice between two equally qualified candidates, a man and a woman, who would you hire?
A. I should prefer a man of good character and education to a woman. A woman is apt to be less capable, less reliable, and less well trained. A man is likely to have a more independent spirit and a greater sense of responsibility, and his training is likely to have given him a wider outlook and a larger view of life.
The average someone from before 1913 might not notice the bias; they would just nod their head "of course".
Just like Joe A. Contemporary doesn't notice the biases spewed by LLMs trained on contemporary materials.