Humans have biases. If LLMs are trained on content made by humans, it will be biased. This will always be built in (since what counts as bias is also cultural and contingent)
The problem is that those models don't follow human bias, but journalist and publisher bias, since that's where most of the sources come from.
The problem is that journalist and publisher bias is something that is controlled by a small group and doesn't reflect common biases, but is pushed from the top, from the mighty upon commons.
That way, what LLMs actually do is push that bias further down the throats of common people. Basically a new propaganda outlet. And the article shows exactly that, that the LLM bias pushed upon us is not the same as common bias found in the population.
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Humans have biases. If LLMs are trained on content made by humans, it will be biased. This will always be built in (since what counts as bias is also cultural and contingent)
The problem is that those models don't follow human bias, but journalist and publisher bias, since that's where most of the sources come from.
The problem is that journalist and publisher bias is something that is controlled by a small group and doesn't reflect common biases, but is pushed from the top, from the mighty upon commons.
That way, what LLMs actually do is push that bias further down the throats of common people. Basically a new propaganda outlet. And the article shows exactly that, that the LLM bias pushed upon us is not the same as common bias found in the population.