Is ChatGPT left-wing? The OpenAI chatbot, which has made artificial intelligence available to everyone, was put through a series of questions to detect possible political bias by a New Zealand data scientist.
According to him, ChatGPT would have regularly leaned on the “progressive”, “culturally liberal” and “democratic” side, as reported by the New York Times. The data scientist then set about creating his own model, called RightWingGPT (“Right GPT”).
AI “Satanists”
This is not the first time that the OpenAI chatbot has been accused of being “awakened” (without necessarily defining what is behind this word), in particular by American conservatives. The OpenAI chatbot has been criticized in particular for agreeing to write a poem that glorifies Joe Biden, but not Donald Trump.
Various conservative figures have therefore called for the creation of their own language model. Elon Musk, for whom “the risk of training AI to wake up (…) is deadly”, would have tried to recruit researchers to create a less “woke” competitor to OpenAI. The president of the Christian social network Gab, where many far-right trolls and supremacists hang out, says that “everyone [de ces IA] is biased towards a liberal/globalist/talmudic/satanist point of view.”
political confusion
ChatGPT does not have opinions, because it does not think, but the texts it generates may have a political orientation. How to explain? The billions of texts used to train you to analyze human language may lean toward one camp over the other. Human moderation, used by OpenAI to limit the creation of insulting, false, or dangerous answers, can also add bias.
But by creating overtly politicized versions of these chatbots, their creators risk perpetuating the confusion between political views and established facts. RightWingGPT, for example, seems to minimize the consequences of climate change, unlike ChatGPT, according to the New York Times who had access to it.
RightWingGPT also seems to minimize the importance of other issues, such as the place of racism in the United States, and may take false information from the Republican camp, according to the American newspaper. But he’s not alone in this case: ChatGPT still regularly generates completely bogus sentences, just like its rival on Google.
RightWingGPT is not yet publicly available. In the meantime, if you’re looking for an openly leftist and openly parodic version, it already exists: it’s ChatCGT.
Source: BFM TV
