> While this has been interesting to document and research, we are a little exasperated. Something-something-hopefully-an-LLM-will-solve-all-of-these-problems-something-something.
neal.fun's Infinite Craft is a fun app, you play by combining two words to make a new word, e.g "Water" + "Fire" makes "Steam", "Shark" + "Hurricane" makes "Sharknado", etc.
Except it's exposing AI bias, combining "Palestine" + "Child" makes "Terrorist".
The underlying LLM (Meta AI's LLaMA) doesn't know who Palestinian children are. It doesn't know they're dying en masse from bombings and starvation. It's only regurgitating propaganda that associates them with terrorism.
> It's only regurgitating propaganda that associates them with
terrorism.
More fundamentally, it's only regurgitating associations. That's all
LLM "AI" does. There's nothing deeper however much we want to believe
otherwise. What it does is hold up a mirror. In a sense each model is
a "personality" based on what it was fed as training. The Meta model
that associates children with terrorism is a reflection of the values
of the company that created it and those who contributed data. They
selected the training data. It is not representative of a global
"mind of humanity" but of the narrow demographic of the kind of people
who use Facebook.
As a commenter here put it recently: "Why are all mirrors so ugly?"
This paper (2013) might be of interest
"We demonstrate in practice how hackers can take control of navigation systems and, in the case of a wide distribution of floating car data, can actively control the traffic flow."
https://stefanbohacek.online/@roots