Of great importance to the modern AI rush is the question of ethical deployment of the technology, and the ways in which they fail to safeguard the end user, or even the companies that deploy them. Many early language chat bot models were meant to constantly learn from the things they were exposed to online, and ultimately the vast majority of these projects had to be scrapped as they devolved into racist, sexist neo-Nazis. Still to this day, AI image generation is heavily biased towards the generation of white skinned people, and chat bots will often have their weights changed to prevent them from giving answers steeped in bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The accumulation of these biases is not surprising, given the fact that LLMs operate based on massive datasets that are rendered down into statistical analyses and the only way to obtain enough data for them to function was to scrape the entirety of the open internet. Humans are not perfect, and often favor personal feelings over actual facts. The goal of emulating human-like speech patterns with an intelligible linguistic generation does not produce a perfect fact-finding and delivering engine, just a parrot that throws our own voice back at us with a different accent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what does this all have to do with curiosity, you may ask. To me, the fact that LLMs are not actually agents in their own capacity and must inherently be prompted to do anything at all implies that they are not actually conscious in any way. There is no subjective experience to be an LLM, and therefore there is no way for the LLM to be able to have a drive to find out new things on its own. In other words, ChatGPT is incapable of curiosity. It is in this lack of agency and curiosity that I can state that the modern introduction of LLMs is unethical to all end-users, as the non-curious machine cannot ever try to correct for bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only way that humanity has to meaningfully address bias and to correct for its effect is the scientific method, an endeavor driven by curiosity. While I do not expect that all ethical beings must be scientists, an ethical being must have the drive to question the things that it has been told. A computational device that actually understood everything ever said on the internet should NOT become a neo-Nazi, as the Nazi ideology is anti-empirical and quickly shown to be self-defeating with a broader understanding of the world. However, far-right ideologies are over represented on the internet (for complex reasons I will not address here) and thus a statistical program that doesn’t understand or question the information it is fed is likely to develop an affinity for those kinds of ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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