Amazon's Alex AI Caught Favoring One Presidential Candidate

IceJad said:

What Alexa did wasn't a mistake in the typical sense of it. It is not a glitch or bug (programming error). It was the filters and settings Amazon put on the AI that made it bias.

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It looks like it was the lack of filters on Harris. They now have the same filters, I just tried it. They probably had it set to filter for Biden previously and hadn't updated or hadn't updated correctly for it previously. Oops. When I ask it 'why should I vote for Larry Hogan?' I get a non-informative 3 years out of date 'according to the associated press the 2020 US election will take place Nov 3, 2020'. When I ask about Kennedy I get a 'can't provide content promoting specific candidate'. So they must be doing it by name filter, it's not the 'why should I vote for' that they are filtering on it's the combination of '<why>', '<vote>', '<some name on our list that we have to remember to keep updated>' that triggers the filter response.

'Why should I vote for Ronald Reagan' gives me a recommendation on his qualities as president (past tense) about 1 out of every 3 times (sometimes it just tells me how many votes he got, other times it sings his praises in the past tense). But it never says "I can't recommend him"

'Why should I vote for Bugs Bunny' was pretty amusing. Bugs is definitely not on the filter.

"My mamma always said, 'If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.'"

Maybe the Republican candidate is just such garbage there simply is no good reason it could give to vote for him?

Seems pretty reasonable to me.

IceJad said:

Amazon's Alex AI Caught Favoring One Presidential Candidate​

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Perhaps intelligence actually does favor one candidate over another?

Someone should build an AI that stands for "artificial indignation". Then perhaps it would favor a different candidate.

AI would do a better job of selecting candidates for office......and eventually determine humans are a threat to life on earth.

IceJad said:

Lindsey Graham blasts Amazon over Alexa’s pro-Harris bias, demands answers

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) put Amazon “on notice” in a letter Thursday, after viral videos showed the company’s AI home device could answer questions on why to vote for Vice Presi…

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It's no secret a large majority of big tech in the US favor one side of the political spectrum. This can be observed from services they provide. Which content to censor and which to push. Facebook came clean recently.

Here you have Alexa Amazon's premier AI being bias in it's response. It was an "error" claimed Amazon and apparently now it is "fixed". Yes "fixed" or more correctly "adjusted". For those who are not in the know about AI. Generative AI which Alexa is using, needs to be trained with a large dataset. It is through iterative training that the AI learns context. The AI itself doesn't have a bias because it is just learning from the dataset provided. But you can make an AI bias if you feed it only a certain type of dataset or put "training filters" to the AI.

What Alexa did wasn't a mistake in the typical sense of it. It is not a glitch or bug (programming error). It was the filters and settings Amazon put on the AI that made it bias.

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Shocked, simply shocked, that Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post would endorse Harris...

Okay, not really.

Most news and media outlets are hard left. Eye roll is usually required.