Overstating the power of algorithmic systems only serves to benefit the tech companies behind them.
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To underline Blanchfield’s point, the ChatGPT book selection process was found to be unreliable and inconsistent when repeated by Popular Science. “A repeat inquiry regarding ‘The Kite Runner,’ for example, gives contradictory answers,” the Popular Science reporters noted. “In one response, ChatGPT deems Khaled Hosseini’s novel to contain ‘little to no explicit sexual content.’ Upon a separate follow-up, the LLM affirms the book ‘does contain a description of a sexual assault.’”
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I think he’s referring to the “AI is banning books” argument (a strawman) not the “Republicans are banning books” which we all know.
Ahh I see. Thank you for the clarification on that.