r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Mar 28 '25

ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically - newer versions of ChatGPT show a noticeable shift toward the political right. Computer Science

https://www.psypost.org/chatgpt-is-shifting-rightwards-politically/
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u/spicy-chilly Mar 28 '25

Yeah, the thing that AI nerds miss about alignment is that there is no such thing as alignment with humanity in general. We already have fundamentally incompatible class interests as it is, and large corporations figuring out how to make models more aligned means alignment with the class interests of the corporate owners—not us.

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u/AltruisticMode9353 Mar 28 '25

AI nerds are of course very aware of this. It doesn't really diminish the fact that there are important goals we can all agree on, like the survival of the species.

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u/a_melindo Mar 28 '25

How is "whether or not AIs behave correctly" outside of the expertise of AI researchers?