If you are a frequent user of Wikipedia when researching controversial subjects and you’ve found yourself suspecting that the site is prone to left-wing bias, you’re not alone. While anyone can enter information on the site, there is an army of editors who quickly jump in to make “corrections” to new entries, frequently with a heavy hand and a decided liberal slant. Examples of this phenomenon abound. Most discerning conservative users have grown used to this trend and are able to ignore the slant, but today this problem may be showing up in a new and unexpected area. Artificial intelligence large language models are “trained” using massive volumes of text from countless sources, and Wikipedia is one of those libraries that it taps. A new study from the Manhattan Institute finds that AI systems such as ChatGPT consistently characterize conservative political figures and…
Wikipedia’s Anti-Conservative Bias Is Infecting AI Models – HotAir
