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what do you think of Gab's new AI assortment, where they offer multiple "characters" from which to choose?

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Extremely interesting, especially the point that it appears to be happening after the base training step. Any further insight on why the Nolan test is an outlier?

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I came across an article a while back in which a researcher asked chatGPT a serious of controversial political questions and it either answered left of center or would not give an answer. The researcher then forced chatGPT to break out of it's rules and asked the same questions which were answered typically right of center or neutral. When word broke out openAI immediately closed the hack.

All that being said it definitely appears that the AI systems are being manipulated to answer to the left to influence political discourse.

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Guess they finally figured out proper safety rails since the old Tay of twitter. No more nazi bots, ho hum

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This attempt to gauge AI political bias is sabotaged by the deceptive bias of the tools used to measure it. Both "Political Coordinates Test" and "Political Compass" are libertarian propaganda, skewed to make libertarian politics appear less niche than they actually are. These charts' Left versus Right axis is straightforward, but the so-called Communitarian/Authoritarian versus Libertarian axis is a false dichotomy that brands half the political spectrum as some flavor of libertarian. In reality, virtually all American libertarians are isolationist conservatives who support free-market capitalism. A socialist libertarian would be a unicorn, a contradiction in terms.

A truly non-partisan political compass would have an Authoritarian-Democratic vertical axis (as in democracy, not the Democratic Party). In the real world, there are indeed both right-wing and left-wing authoritarian governments, as well as both right-wing and left-wing democratic governments. Libertarianians would be a found in a corner of the right-wing democratic quadrant.

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