As billions of dollars pour into the arms race to create ever-more advanced artificial intelligence, generative AI has also become one of the latest battlefronts in the culture war, threatening to shape how the technology is operated and regulated at a critical time in its development.
At a campaign rally in Iowa late last month, Ron DeSantis, Republican presidential candidate and Florida governor, warned that big AI companies used training data that was “more woke” and contained a political agenda.
Conservative activists such as Christopher Rufo – who is generally credited with stirring the right’s moral panic around critical race theory being taught in schools – warned their followers on social media that “woke AI” was an urgent threat.
“All generative AI does is remix and regurgitate stuff in its source material,” said Meredith Broussard, a professor at New York University and author of the book More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech.
After the initial wave of backlash from conservatives, OpenAI published a blog in February that appeared aimed at appeasing critics across the political spectrum and vowed to invest resources to “reduce both glaring and subtle biases in how ChatGPT responds to different inputs”.
And when speaking with the podcast host Lex Fridman, who has become popular among anti-woke cultural crusaders like Jordan Peterson and tech entrepreneurs like Musk, in March, ChatGPT founder Sam Altman said: “I think it was too biased and will always be.
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As billions of dollars pour into the arms race to create ever-more advanced artificial intelligence, generative AI has also become one of the latest battlefronts in the culture war, threatening to shape how the technology is operated and regulated at a critical time in its development.
At a campaign rally in Iowa late last month, Ron DeSantis, Republican presidential candidate and Florida governor, warned that big AI companies used training data that was “more woke” and contained a political agenda.
Conservative activists such as Christopher Rufo – who is generally credited with stirring the right’s moral panic around critical race theory being taught in schools – warned their followers on social media that “woke AI” was an urgent threat.
“All generative AI does is remix and regurgitate stuff in its source material,” said Meredith Broussard, a professor at New York University and author of the book More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech.
After the initial wave of backlash from conservatives, OpenAI published a blog in February that appeared aimed at appeasing critics across the political spectrum and vowed to invest resources to “reduce both glaring and subtle biases in how ChatGPT responds to different inputs”.
And when speaking with the podcast host Lex Fridman, who has become popular among anti-woke cultural crusaders like Jordan Peterson and tech entrepreneurs like Musk, in March, ChatGPT founder Sam Altman said: “I think it was too biased and will always be.
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