ChatGPT has read most of the internet. That hasn't solved its diversity issues

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Canadian universities moral police work instead of doing anything actually useful. The state of innovation in Canada is next to non existent. I live in Waterloo and 95% of the best comp sci and comp eng grads to the US. It's really not surprising when you compare the importance of the creation of ChatGPT with think piece blog posts about DEI.

If Uganda or Suriname wants a GPT that reflects their culture, they should get to work making one. Sick and tired of the hand-wringing from the do-nothings who criticize everything that builders build.

My coworker trained an LLM on his text messages and was mildly horrified to realize how badly the model "misunderstood" all of the "good natured harassment" he and his contacts give each other. It was shocking enough that he thought "maybe we should tone it down a bit" but it opened his eyes to what an unbiased review of his texts actually looks like.

How are we going to be surprised that an Internet trained model has similar biases? It's not like the Internet is a reliable diversity mixer -- especially in its current "algorithmic bubble" mode.

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