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  • blurbleblurble 12 minutes ago
    "we demonstrate that LLMs can spontaneously develop novel social biases about artificial demographic groups even when no inherent differences exist"

    It's almost as though bias-making machinery is embedded in the texts these things are trained on.

    It's wild to see quantitative researchers catching even just a glimpse of what culture/media/literary theorists have been swimming in for decades.

  • ortusdux 20 minutes ago
    https://ianayres.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Race_eff...

    From 2015: "We investigate the impact of seller race in a field experiment involving baseball card auctions on eBay. Photographs showed the cards held by either a darkskinned/African-American hand or a light-skinned/Caucasian hand. Cards held by African-American sellers sold for approximately 20% ($0.90) less than cards held by Caucasian sellers, and the race effect was more pronounced in sales of minority player cards. "

  • impossiblefork 22 minutes ago
    I haven't read the whole thing yet, but I think this is a really important paper.

    I used to despise this kind of thing but it sheds light on the enormous generalization problems that aren't even close to being solved.