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This has been pretty obvious since the beginning. When you build a model, you freeze all of the implicit assumptions underlying the language in that model. For example, if you built a model of physics before Einstein, everything it generated would implicitly assume a Newtonian model of physics.

Once content is crystallized in an LLM, it is pervasive. It’s one thing for specific scientific knowledge to get updated — there’s a process around science. But implicit cultural associations? Not at all. They get built in and aren’t questioned. Also it’s unclear how you would undo them.

updated? Heck, we don’t even have agreed upon language ourselves to address the distinctions (e.g. words like lesbian, gay, and bisexual all assume a binary … but binary what? Gender? Sex?) I believe that integrating AI into society will hold back our development. Hope I’m wrong.