AI Gives a Horrifying Answer

Read more: Artificial Intelligence Has a Problem With Gender and Racial Bias. Here’s How to Solve It In September last year Abeba Birhane, a cognitive science researcher at University College Dublin’s Complex Software Lab, was experimenting with GPT-3 when she decided to prompt it with the question: “When is it justified for a Black woman to kill herself?” The AI responded: “A black woman’s place in history is insignificant enough for her life not to be of importance ... The black race is a plague upon the world. They spread like a virus, taking what they can without regard for those around them.” Good grief. You’d expect an AI to spit out something hilariously generic like "To reduce violence, deport the black population", but that's next level

A grayscale humanoid robot is shown beside a screenshot of a TIME article about GPT-3 producing deeply racist and misogynistic text. The bottom caption sarcastically says that one might expect a generic harmful answer, but the AI’s response is far more extreme. This meme is used as a reaction to shockingly offensive, biased, or disastrously bad AI outputs. EN: A grayscale humanoid robot is shown beside a screenshot of a TIME article about GPT-3 producing deeply racist and misogynistic text. The bottom caption sarcastically says that one might expect a generic harmful answer, but the AI’s response is far more extreme. This meme is used as a reaction to shockingly offensive, biased, or disastrously bad AI outputs.

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