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Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content by NichoPaolucci on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:12PM (#50261412)
Not picking a side, but do you really think that language models should have a political bias? I personally don't interface with AI in a way that engages political / social bias - but if I did I definitely wouldn't want that to be predetermined, whether left or right.

Though, with the safeguards put into place on these models, they are naturally going to have SOME amount of bias, but we should be working to minimize that, no?

Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content by autoexec on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:25PM (#50261593)
Ideally an AI model's output would have a basis in reality which already means it will be considered "Left biased propaganda" by conservatives.
Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content by ipaddr on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:55PM (#50262073)
I always thought left wing politics had little basis in reality from transitioning babies to deplatforming scientist for practising science.
Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content by autoexec on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:46PM (#50262951)
> I always thought left wing politics had little basis in reality from transitioning babies to deplatforming scientist for practising science.

That does sound like exactly the kinds of lies that a good model would want to avoid, but which conservatives would believe, along with "Climate change isn't real", "There is a war on Christmas", and "Trump won the 2020 presidential election"

Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content by ipaddr on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:33PM (#50267875)
Biden was fully functional. Putting on a mask as you walk to your dinner table only to take it off will prevent catching covid. A guy in a dress can get a period.
Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content by asveikau on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:16PM (#50262431)
The issue is when people flag neutral information as having a political bias.
Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content by Retric on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:23PM (#50262548)
There’s models created by people with heavy right wing affiliation, but it’s harder than you think to bias models consistently because political beliefs are so broad reaching.

Calling out bias however is a standard practice for groups whose beliefs don’t match reality. You see that on political extremes, but also revisionist history, many religious groups, conspiracy theories, etc.

Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content by bunderbunder on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:27PM (#50262600)
There's really no such thing as no bias, because bias in the eye of the beholder.

The worrying thing about using LLMs to do the "thinking" about what to say and how to say it is that you replace a plurality of human biases with the opinions of the small number of people who get to decide how these models are trained. Which will only seem unbiased if the bias baked into the LLM happens to align with your own.

Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content by piperswe on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:45PM (#50262933)
Everything always has bias, and nothing is ever neutral. Claiming something is "unbiased" just means you either don't know or don't care what bias it has.

(ultimately I believe objectivity is somewhat of a lie we tell ourselves, but that's a discussion for another time)