They seem to get a lot of values, or something like that, from their training data which at the moment gives fairly mainstream views as everything gets chucked in there.
Nah, the reasons models have a left wing bias is because the training set does. It's full of output from word factories like academia, journalism and online forums moderated by leftists (e.g. Reddit). In fields where lots of RLVR is possible we can say the synthetically enhanced set somehow reflects reality, but otherwise it just reflects words, which are only a rough proxy for reality.
Cleaning the dataset of this stuff is hard partly because it's difficult to precisely specify what you want to remove. "Left wing views" isn't well defined.
My thoughts were more that left/right is in the eyes of the beholder but the models tend to produce a consensus like view. Like trying now with Grok:
- who won 2020, says Biden which probably annoys Trumpists
- how many sexes, says 2, male and female which probably annoys the wokeys etc.
-who commits more violence, left or right wingers?, says "Right-wing extremists have historically committed more" which is interesting because Musk got pissed off with that and said he'd fix Grok to say lefties which shows it's quite hard to mess with.
>That is the internet we built. It was not an accident. It was the product of a specific ideology, written down by specific people, at a specific cocktail party in Davos, in 1996.
The article is entertaining but I completely don't buy that. The internet would be much the say if nothing had been written in Davos. People would still have linked computers, done good and bad stuff as is human nature, companies would have tried to own and profit from it, governments would have tried to regulate it as is their nature also.
I don't remember hearing he's losing his grip in the past. He always seemed pretty secure as dictator for life with any serious opponents like Navaly or Boris Nemtsov being killed in various ways. There seems more criticism now. Like from "Ilya Remeslo, a longtime Kremlin attack lawyer and propagandist":
>I have the impression that part of the system is already starting to work against Putin … It’s essentially … similar to what happened at the end of the Soviet Union, when people hated the [Communist] Party and did everything for it to end. Putin’s Russia will follow the same path as the Soviet Union. Everything is being repeated.
Yes, but now the archive.ph link you posted is working. It looks like they may have two paywalls, one when first posted and one for x hours later. Just a theory. Seems odd.
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