I was reading #AI output because people canβt help themselves I guess, and I suddenly thought Jesus fuck, this sounds like a man. And then, it hit me. Every large language model Iβve encountered sounded like a cis hetero man on the internet.
@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social LLMs are all trained on material scraped from the internet, and men have a habit of replying even when they have nothing cogent to add, increasing their share of available training text. Look, Iβm a man, and Iβm doing it right now!
@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
I was saying the same thing the other day. The most confident, mansplaining, bs generating, ignorant mediocre man. Full of authority but zero understanding.
@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social it's something interesting people have noticed.
Like, when it was just supposed to be like "play this music for me" you had "female" Assistants like Alexa or Siri. Now it seems like all the named AI stuff is Male, possibly as an authoritative thing?
@JoBlakely@mastodon.social @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social Plus they all write in that annoying "middle-management memo" style that no-one bothers more than skim read because it's mostly padding.