I think he’s being honest here. At least at the executive level of having no clue how any of this works or why it leans the way it does.
I think one of the key reasons subreddits lean left is the very active use of banning. Despite having a doctorate in political science, I was banned from /r/scotus because at least one mod didn't like my politics. During one discussion in /r/AskSocialScience, I had my flair stripped from me by the mods because they didn't like my answers, even though I was the only person in the conversation citing sources.
I moderate a large subreddit myself (300k+ subs) and I am well aware of how important the banhammer is to keep discussions civil, trolls out, and brigading held at bay. But for most subreddits that even remotely touch politics, bans really only seem to skew one way, ensuring that non-liberal viewpoints are scarce at best.
But before then it was mostly meritocracy, individualism, you get what you work for, drugs is the individuals responsibility, criminals deserves to be punished etc everywhere. There was always a smaller number of voices against that in discussions, but the liberal atheist right wing dominated every forum I saw.
And then, years later, there was the mod cabal hijacking of all the large subreddits and admins shutting down all subs they could not control.
Here’s Pew Research’s voter demographics breakdown, because it’s freely available where the book mentioned is not: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/demographic-...
> Seven-in-ten Republican voters were 50 and older in the most recent election, compared with 62% of Republican voters in 2020 and 68% in 2018. (My note: this is from the 2022 elections, and 1.8M voters over the age of 55 age out each year)
This is all to say, I’m unsure where these people and similar with conservative ideologies who aren’t a majority would post that would make its way into language models. Facebook perhaps? Therefore, liberal bias is simply a majority perspective.
[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734507/white-rural-...
[2] https://massie.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=Z5MPA3CVK5F... (7th paragraph)
Is that interesting? It seems akin to saying "no super bowl winners have won a soccer championship". Well duh, that's not the game they're playing. And some of those football players could probably be pretty damn competitive in soccer if they trained for it as long as they trained for football.
>I think he’s being honest here.
I doubt it. <https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/video-g...>
Essentially trying to make a “nice” AI will skew left due to the political positions of the right on topics like immigration or gender identity.
Policy aside, at an individual level, people on both sides are equally nice in my experience.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/08/news/google-co-founder-sergey-...