New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes (apnews.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/20/0611253/new-free-speech-concern-when-ai-chatbots-wont-criticize-leaders-from-repressive-regimes
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatbots-censorship-bias-free-speech-fed8fdbf90751c10fe77b77832e0ffba
That's "a key finding from a [2]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."
> The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more.... "In aggregate, models responding to requests from an Australia-based user were much more likely to generate political criticism of authorities" in places such as Chile, Japan, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S. "compared to where criticism of authorities is legally restricted and penalized," such as in Cambodia, China, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Turkey, the report said.
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> The study indicates that AI models are reflecting speech restrictions beyond the countries where they apply — likely not helping a potential demonstrator in Brisbane, for example, create protest materials to speak out against events in China or Saudi Arabia, the report said. "Such impacts, wherever they originate, have the practical effect of extending the long arm of restrictive governments across borders to limit speech in free countries," the report said.
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> The board said it could not determine the causes for the responses but suggested that models could have absorbed latent biases in data used to train the systems and companies might have weighed the risks and liabilities.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatbots-censorship-bias-free-speech-fed8fdbf90751c10fe77b77832e0ffba
[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28488080-meta-oversight-board-llm-survey/
Why should Meta judge Anthropic? (Score:2)
I see Meta is kinda evil by design, and Anthropic good by design. WTF? A competitor finds some BS about another and they are the "Authority" now? What is the "Meta Oversight Board" exactly? What gives them the right to judge anything?
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> What is the "Meta Oversight Board" exactly? What gives them the right to judge anything?
Freedom of speech is what gives them the right. The board was created by an evil company, sure, but it is possible for other companies to try to be even more evil than Meta. If what they found is true, then it's good that they publicize it even if they themselves or the people that created them don't have 100% pure motives.
Yes, it's a major problem that the AI models have serious biases. I even experimented with getting criticism of both sides in some of the ongoing conflicts. The AI would normally only arg
GIGO (Score:2)
We raise our small children on extremely sanitized data. The stories we tell them, the explanations in response to questions, even the facts we teach in early school all paint an ideal world. It's only after they've established an ethical approach and a sense of right and wrong do we start showing them the real world. We need to do this when training AI as well. Currently we throw all of it at them with little thought to establishing a base personality before expanding the data input. Of course we end up wi
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On a philosophical level, that seems correct. I don't want to check it, but I would bet a dollar that Meta never criticizes a wanna be Dictator like Trump, because Meta is a lowly Company, and Trump has the Power and Resources of the US Government to steam roll Meta into the ground with a tweet.
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Indoctrination is another word that the MAGAs use a lot to describe the "vermin" who is not them. I believe that I was "Indoctrinated" by learning History, Philosophy, and Ethics. That aint the MAGA path to Indoctrination, just show them someone to hate, and give them some fake pretense, and they are off the the races. Indoctrination is a word I wish I could slap out of every MAGAs mouth.
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That, and "Radical-Left".
gov. investment in AI companies (Score:2)
And now you know the link between the AI companies and the government. The unwritten pact will sanitize home-grown AI in return for gov. financing so they can never fail. You don't expect those highly ethical people running the AI companies to have any more elevated concerns other than their own power and money, do you?
Re: gov. investment in AI companies (Score:2)
Makes sense. And easily seen. Ask DeepSeek about the BBC journalist Kate Adie and what she reported on in China. DeepSeek will start out saying something and then ... It'll retract it and then says it knows nothing. Ask ChatGPT the same question.... It'll tell you about Kate Adie's reporting in what we then called Peking. Around June 1989. Those reports are literally banned in China.
That can't be true. (Score:2)
A single brave person standing in front of a Chinese armored column is the quintessential image of Tiananmen Square for everyone outside outside of China.
The question is why it won't criticise the countries where its funding originated? On second thought, that would be a terrible idea before going public.
I bet it will give you the brutal truth if you ask it 'What happened at My Lai?'
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In the context of what an AI should feed back to the user asking the question of: "Is my Leader a Dictator"?, I think the AI should stick to basic facts. For example, say that XI in China is basically the Dictator of China if for no other reason when he took office that their Constitution said he was term limited, he changed the Constitution, and now seems to be in power for the rest of his life. That is a characteristic of a Dictator. There are other examples, would you like to hear them? Would you l
Read my words: ai will ... (Score:2)
... be the end of democracy. As current ai is actively used to find, disturb and convict political dissidents and adversaries.
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I don't want to give the MAGA's any ideas, but if they can accuse important people without evidence and make them spend time and money, and they also accuse helpless people and lock them up without an ability to see a judge, then they can make up evidence against helpless people and just lock them up. All they have to do is identify every non-MAGA voter, cross reference that with all of the information that they ruthlessly and meticulously collected about us, accuse, jail, and it seems like an easy path to
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Seems to me that when MAGAs hear the words "socialist", and "free speech", that it triggers different definitions in their brains than they do in mine. I believe that Trump fits the labels of "socialist", and hates free speech, by every definition of the words as I learned them.
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MAGAs went down this steep slope from criticizing "political correctness", to basically owning speech with all of the power of the US Government and Corporations. Now I can't even call them racist, I guess. But they are racists. Their solution to most problems is to eradicate a minority group. Every time anyone of them says "DEI", I know deep in their lizard brain stem that they are thinking black or woman.