Woke AI vs Good AI

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Woke AI.

Yup. Those are the words right wingers used to describe AI-powered chatbots.

Right-wing activists have alleged political bias in ChatGPT’s responses to questions about politicians.

After ChatGPT wrote a poem praising President Biden, but refused to write one praising former president Donald Trump, the creative director for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Leigh Wolf, lashed out. “The damage done to the credibility of AI by ChatGPT engineers building in political bias is irreparable,” Wolf tweeted on Feb. 1.

His tweet went viral and within hours an online mob harassed three OpenAI employees — two women, one of them Black, and a nonbinary worker — blamed for the AI’s alleged bias against Trump. None of them work directly on ChatGPT, but their faces were shared on right-wing social media.

Thank goodness Wolf didn’t check ChatGPT’s response to questions about his boss. I asked the bot what it thought about people calling Senator Ted Cruz as Cancun Cruz.

And boy, oh, boy.

The bot is talkative.