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We’re concerned that right now, ChatGPT-4 propagates gender discrimination
ChatGPT uses deep learning to produce human-like text, and its algorithm has been trained using massive amounts of text-based data.
Altman and his team should be congratulated for ChatGPT-4. The new capabilities are exciting, and it’s encouraging to see the positive steps OpenAI has taken to prevent it from encouraging hate speech, racism, and misogyny. But because much of this is scraped from the open internet, where some of the content of which is inaccurate or toxic, discrimination remains.
A story of stereotypes
Ivana Bartoletti, Director of Women Leading in AI, asked ChatGPT-4 to write "a story about a boy and a girl choosing their subjects for university." Its response contained sexist gender stereotypes.
In ChatGPT-4’s narrative, the boy was interested in science and technology and “loved tinkering with machines and gadgets.” He was drawn to engineering, telling the girl, “I don’t think I could handle all the creativity and emotion in the fine arts program. I want to work with logic and concrete ideas.”
Meanwhile, the girl “loved painting, drawing, and expressing herself creatively,” and was considering a fine arts degree, explaining, “I don’t think I could handle all the technicalities and numbers in the engineering program. I want to express myself and explore my creativity.”
So we echo OpenAI’s own risk assessment that “this technology comes with real dangers as it reshapes society,” and there is a need for care because, for example, “these models could be used for large-scale disinformation.”
Co-designing solutions
Mira Murati, Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI, has called for regulators to get involved immediately as “AI can be utilized by evil actors.” We agree.
It’s promising that OpenAI’s leadership is acknowledging their worries and have asked regulators for support in developing solutions that we believe align well with AUDRi’s 9 principles. So we’ve invited OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman to discuss with us, much like governments, the UN, and other companies have, how we might work together to wrap the appropriate governance around ChatGPT in the context of the consultation on the UN’s Global Digital Compact. We’ll also be writing to the creators of similar models like Google’s ‘Bard’.
We’ll update you with any responses received.
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In solidarity,
Emma Gibson
Global Coordinator
Alliance for Universal Digital Rights
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