Must have been prompted to be an American podcaster.
Bring on the one that's all British and snarky!
Bring on the one that's all British and snarky!
I guess it’s training data but also heavily RLHF. I doubt that the trainers are aware of their own cultural biases and values, and they may not care. And why should they? In either case, from a thousand yard perspective, it’s probably an effective vector for spreading “American values”, if you will.
Anyone receiving the message would instantly clock that I didn't write it - even with a prompt longer than the original message trying to massage out all of the Americanisms and false enthusiasm. Not a use case that works for me, haha.
[1]: I was trying to use it to shorten my "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" waffling.
I can't speak to all of the LLMs, but as an American who listens to a LOT of podcasts, I can tell you why these ones sound the way they do: the audience. People who listen to (non-fiction) podcast want to be informed. They are people who are curious about the world around them and are generally interested in self-improvement at some level. Can you imagine a personal finance or health podcast delivered in a pessimistic or even fatalist tone? No, they are all _optimistic_ (even energetic) in tone, because that's the WHOLE reason people are listening to them at all.
I don't think the folks at Google are as patriotic as you think they are.