Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Hasso Plattner Institute found that major AI chatbots xAI, Meta, Google, Alibaba and Mistral significantly changed the meaning of text while summarizing it, even after being instructed to preserve the original sense.
They found repeatable political slants, reflecting the culture of the team who trained each AI model.
They also found amplifying effects, where the initial bias introduced in the summary gets multiplied to drift even further away from the original meaning.
As co-author Prof Sandra Wachter put it:
The cost is that we are learning other people’s opinions when it is not their actual opinion
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It’s completely profound. Language is one of the things making us human and all of a sudden a mediator is stepping into that process. AI is forcing itself in as a gatekeeper of knowledge and understanding.
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