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El Reg reports that the Republican thought police are now trying to ban “woke” AI*. Here are a couple of snippets (emphasis added); follow the link to put them in context.

In an email, Joshua McKenty, former chief cloud architect at NASA and the co-founder and CEO of Polyguard, an identity verification firm, told The Register, “No LLM knows what truth is – at best, they can be trained to favor consistency, where claims that match the existing model are accepted, and claims that differ from the existing model are rejected. This is not unlike how people determine truthiness anyway – ‘if it matches what I already believe, then it must be true.'”

(snip)

“In the LLM world, attempts to ‘un-wokeify’ LLMs have literally produced an AI that named itself MechaHitler,” he said. “This isn’t just a problem in how LLMs are constructed – it’s actually a problem in how humans have constructed ‘truth’ and ideology, and it’s not one that AI is going to fix.”

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*That is, AI that doesn’t reflect and perpetuate their racism, bigotry, and prejudices.

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