Hacker NewsOct 23

We tested 20 LLMs for ideological bias, revealing distinct alignments

https://anomify.ai/resources/articles/llm-bias

#HackerNews #LLMbias #IdeologicalBias #AIethics #MachineLearning #ResearchInsights

Do LLMs exhibit ideological biases? An experiment across today’s top models

As more and more of us use Large Language Models (LLMs) for daily tasks, their potential biases become increasingly important. We investigated whether today's leading models, such as those from OpenAI, Google, and others, exhibit ideological leanings.

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 10, 2025
Ah, the classic tale of Wilson comparing his LLM's bias to, drumroll please, *humans*! 🎉 Apparently, both struggle with a teeny-tiny thing called context. 😂 But hey, let's pretend interleaving random comments will totally resemble a real conversation, because who needs coherence when you have chaos? 🤦‍♂️
https://wilsoniumite.com/2025/03/10/people-are-just-as-bad-as-my-llms/ #LLMbias #HumanContext #CoherenceChaos #TechHumor #AIobservations #HackerNews #ngated
People are just as bad as my LLMs – Wilsons Blog

Brian SmallMay 19, 2023

.> Timnit Gebru, founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), described the use of AI in debt collection as "punishing those who are already struggling."
.> "In a time when income inequality is off the charts, when we should be reducing things like student debt, are we really trying to build tools to put even more pressures on those who are struggling? This would be true even if the software was working as intended," Gebru said.
.> "In addition to this, we know that there are so many biases that these LLM based systems have, encoding hegemonic and stereotypical views,” Gebru added, referring to the findings of the paper on large AI models that she co-authored with several other researchers. “The fact that we don't even know what they're doing and they're not required to tell us is also incredibly concerning."
.> Some of the companies that stand to benefit most from AI integration are those that purely exist to collect debt. These companies, known as debt buyers, purchase “distressed” debt from other creditors at steep discounts—usually pennies on the dollar—then try as hard as they can to get debtors to repay in full. They don’t issue loans, or provide any kind of service that clients might owe them for; it’s a business model built on profiting from people who fell behind on payments to someone else. - https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjmm5/debt-collectors-want-to-use-ai-chatbots-to-hustle-people-for-money

#AISalami #ChatGPT #DebtCollection #VultureFunds #TinmitGebru #LLM #LLMBias

Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money

The collections industry is pushing GPT-4 as a dystopian new way to make borrowers pay up, replicating the debt system’s long history of racial bias.