Large Language Models appear to be more liberal: A new study of 24 state-of-the-art conversational LLMs, including ChatGPT, shows that today's AI models lean left of center. LLMs show an average score of -30 on a political spectrum, indicating a left-leaning bias.

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Study finds that ChatGPT, one of the world’s most popular conversational AI systems, tends to lean toward left-wing political views. The system not only produces more left-leaning text and images but also often refuses to generate content that presents conservative perspectives.

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One of the most cited AI models used to scan chest x-rays doesn’t accurately detect potentially life-threatening diseases in women & Black people. Black women fell to the bottom, with the AI not detecting disease in half of them for conditions such as cardiomegaly, or enlargement of the heart.

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Women are systematically portrayed as younger than men online, and AI amplifies the bias, according to a sweeping new study by UC Berkeley Haas, Stanford, and Oxford researchers published in the journal Nature. 👩‍💻📊🔍

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New 💡 research from the Oxford Internet Institute 🏛️ at the University of Oxford, and the University of Kentucky, finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier 💰, Western regions 🌍 in response to different questions, mirroring long-standing biases in the data they ingest 📚.

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🌍 New research reveals ChatGPT systematically favors wealthier Western regions, mirroring existing biases in its training data.

📊 An analysis of over 20 million ChatGPT queries found the AI tended to associate higher-income regions with positive traits like "smarter" or "happier," while lower-income areas ranked at the bottom.

🗺️ The study, "The Silicon Gaze," highlights how AI's biased outputs can amplify inequalities and shape perceptions globally. A website, inequalities.ai, allows users to explore ChatGPT's rankings for their own locations.

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💡 New research published in npj Artificial Intelligence reveals that Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are not ideologically neutral. They tend to adopt the perspectives of the companies and countries that develop them.

🌍 A study tested 19 LLMs from the US, China, UAE, and Europe, analyzing their portrayals of nearly 4,000 historical political figures born after 1850. The findings showed that Western models favored figures associated with liberal values (human rights, inclusivity), while Chinese models favored state stability and pro-China views. Arabic models also displayed distinct patterns.

🗣️ The language used to interact with LLMs significantly impacts their output. Prompting a model in Chinese, for example, resulted in different ideological leanings compared to prompting in English, even with the same model. This suggests that language embeds cultural context that influences AI's information processing.

🏢 Even within the same country, models can show different ideological leanings due to corporate culture. For instance, Google's Gemini showed a preference for progressive values, while xAI's Grok leaned towards conservative nationalism. Similarly, Chinese models from Alibaba and Baidu exhibited different orientations.

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People consistently judge creative writing more harshly if they believe it was created by AI. This bias appears incredibly difficult to overcome, pointing to a persistent human preference for art created by people.

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An essay argues that searching "ugly hair" on Google Images consistently returns mostly Black women with natural hair, and that this isn't a glitch: it's what happens when a system learns from biased data and nobody intervenes.

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