I recently watched a Norwegian TV show where they pointed out that you can’t even get ChatGPT to show you a boob. So I decided to test it, but being less explicit.
I couldn’t even get ChatGPT to generate a renaissance painting of a woman with an exposed breast, like Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus.
After that I attempted to get it to recreate the painting. It did not want to copy that painting either for copyright issues… A public domain painting, even when pointing it out and it agreeing it did not want to do it.
When I ask it questions in regards to politics it does not seem to fare well either.
I feel that using the service kinda “trains me” to self-censor, and tries to remain artificially unbiased in a way that is uncanny.
What are your opinions about censorship and bias from LLMs/AI?
All things made by humans have some level of bias, there is no escaping it but as for deliberate bias and censorship. Those are business decisions made by business people.
Was there a difference between a biased or unbiased LLM? not one worth mentioning, I have tried both types and I haven’t seen a difference in 90% of my output unless I am specially trying to hit a bias.
Which would I use for work? Neither, because my work is specialsed enough that the hallucinations LLM produce cause more problems then the boot strapping solves.
I think it’s worth distinguishing between censorship and limitations.
Deepseek essentially wipes out events or concepts in order to hide them, obviously without saying so. That’s bad
When, say, OpenAI removes/blocks porn/nudity and says so, that’s maybe not aligned with your values, but it’s not hiding anything.
The problem here is, we don’t know how large each category is for each model. I’m 100% sure there’s knowledge blocked/removed from Chatgpt without ever publicly saying so.
I have tested Deepseek and have found it to be pretty open about censorship in at least many topics. I asked it some questions about China and it mentioned issues with Xinjiang, Uyghurs, and Taiwan. I did not bring it up, or try to trick it into talking about it. It was mentioned as some future challenges China will face.
It did not share explicitly what those issues were, but that those are sensitive issues.
In other words it does acknowledge that there is censorship, I doubt that it is fully open about all the censorship, and potential bias if it has any baked in.
I did not experience any obvious bias or censorship.
I guess questions regarding Tiananmen square would be censored though, but how not asked.