Part of the reason AIs seem so human to work with is that they are trained on our conversations and writings. So human biases also work their way into the training data. First, much of the training comes from the open web, which is nobody’s idea of a nontoxic, friendly place to learn from. But those biases are compounded by the fact that the data itself is limited to what primarily American and generally English-speaking AI firms decided to gather. And those firms tend to be dominated by male computer scientists, who bring their own biases to decisions about what data is important to collect.
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