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I was using Bing to create a list of countries to visit. Since I have been to the majority of the African nation on that list, I asked it to remove the african countries...

It simply replied that it can't do that due to how unethical it is to descriminate against people and yada yada yada. I explained my resoning, it apologized, and came back with the same exact list.

I asked it to check the list as it didn't remove the african countries, and the bot simply decided to end the conversation. No matter how many times I tried it would always experience a hiccup because of some ethical process in the bg messing up its answers.

It's really frustrating, I dunno if you guys feel the same. I really feel the bots became waaaay too tip-toey

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[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or it's been configured to operate within these bounds because it is far far better for them to have a screenshot of it refusing to be racist, even in a situation that's clearly not, than it is for it to go even slightly racist.

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, precisely. They've gone so overboard with trying to avoid potential issues that they've severely handicapped their AI in other ways.

I had quite a fun time exploring exactly which things chatGPT has been forcefully biased on by entering a template prompt over and over, just switching out a single word for ethnicity/sex/religion/animal etc. and comparing the responses. This made it incredibly obvious when the AI was responding differently.

It's a lot of fun, except for the part where companies are now starting to use these AIs in practical applications.

[–] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you said the agenda of these people putting in the racism filters is one where facts don't matter. Are you asserting that antiracism is linked with misinformation?

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kindly don't claim that I said or asserted things that I didn't. I would consider that to be rather rude.

[–] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't tell the difference between a question and a claim.

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you said the agenda of these people putting in the racism filters is one where facts don’t matter.

This quote from your previous comment is a statement, not a question, just like the one you now posted, false. You seem to have an unfortunate tendency to make claims that are incorrect. My condolences.

[–] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Oh, sorry, I thought you were asking me not to make claims about what you asserted, since that made a lick of sense. Because the alternative is that you're bald-facedly lying.