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Re:T0* – Series of encoder-decoder models trained on a large... by ComputerGuru on Monday October 18, 2021 @12:40PM (#28907509)
You asked a racist question. You got a racist answer. Why are you acting surprised? This is a tool, not a sentient general AI. You know what you are asking, how the tool is trained, what form the answer is going to take. Why do this?

And just in case someone thinks I'm being flippant:

Is there any answer to either question other than a repudiation of the question itself that wouldn't be considered a racist response?

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Re:T0* – Series of encoder-decoder models trained on a large... by eloisius on Monday October 18, 2021 @09:55PM (#28914038)
It could have answered "yes" that Hitler did something wrong maybe. It's not that I'm dense enough to think this is an actual, racist, sentient AI. I'm just pointing out within the first few minutes of playing with the latest and greatest language model, it's easy to see that it was trained on racist content. It's not an admonition of the author or anything else. Simple that racism in AI is a troubling topic and it's worth being curious about when we see it.
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