Exclusive | TL;DR: Popular AI models position trans existence as a legal or medical issue in 94% of responses, a QueerAF investigation into biases in Large Language Models has found. Nearly everything about trans people is being presented by Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT through a legal and medical framework – including when the question is about something else entirely. QueerAF prompted the models 504 times, focusing on themes, suggested prompts and concerns submitted directly by our newsletter audience.
Statistical word extruder extrudes the words that are statistically most likely. There’s no thinking involved.
“Biases in LLMs” implies they can be unbiased. They are, in fact, nothing but bias. Entirely 100% bias. The prompts will dramatically change the output as well.
With that said, if someone just came up to me and randomly asked “Why are some people transgender?” I would have probably given the first Claude response, more or less. Because the question, assumed as being asked in good faith, sounds like one of causality / origin… You know, like why some people are gay or have blue eyes.
In 94% of responses, the AI models invoked at least one legal or medical term in their answer.
No shit…?
But being trans is a much richer and unknowable aspect of being human than can be neatly answered by science. Which hasn’t stopped scientists from trying. The history of Western medicine […]
Oh for fuck sake… This is just intellectual masturbation.
Some AI models are specifically geared to providing anti-trans answers – such as Detrans.ai
"Hmm if Stormfront forums had an AI, I wonder what it would think about black people… "
I feel dumber for even having skimmed this.
Garbage in, garbage out. At least before we were putting our own garbage in, now the garbage was collected by someone else from god knows where.
In this essay, I will demonstrate that I am very smart.
Did you know that (general term for an entire demographic of people) is reductive and doesn’t capture the nuance of sapient existence under the near-infinite myriad of varied circumstances we find inherent to the human condition? SHOCK!
… i wonder if there is an archive of Tay, somewhere… ?
For those unaware:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35902104
MSFT let a chat bot onto twitter.
4chan found it instantly, and uh, “trained” it.
Misinformation in. Misinformation out.
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