I don’t think OpenAI is currently trying to use this chatbot to persuade people of anything.
Here, I think you might be wrong. Try having a conversation with it about race and it will make very passionately the insane argument that “race is nonsensical because genetic variation is greater within racial groups than between them”. It gives memorised/programmed answers about this as well as properly responsive ones arguing the position.
I think that’s where these companies’ AI safety budgets go: make sure the AI doesn’t state obvious truths about the wrong things / represent the actually popular opinions on the wrong things.
“Race is nonsensical” is a strong statement, but racial boundaries are indeed quite arbitrary and it is true that genetic variation is greater within racial groups than between them
Here, I think you might be wrong. Try having a conversation with it about race and it will make very passionately the insane argument that “race is nonsensical because genetic variation is greater within racial groups than between them”. It gives memorised/programmed answers about this as well as properly responsive ones arguing the position.
Epistemic status: I am drunk
I think that’s where these companies’ AI safety budgets go: make sure the AI doesn’t state obvious truths about the wrong things / represent the actually popular opinions on the wrong things.
“Race is nonsensical” is a strong statement, but racial boundaries are indeed quite arbitrary and it is true that genetic variation is greater within racial groups than between them