[I_Am_Nous]

I can understand an argument about the AI needing to know basic history. News is just how we report history in the making, but it's not generally accepted as solid until some time after the events when we can get more context.

Isn't this what the Associated Press is intended for, a stream of news trying to report just the facts and happenings of the day? That's quite a bit different than a NYT article intending to inform but also convince someone of a position of some sort.

Feeding an AI opinionated news compared to "just the facts, ma'am" seems risky from a bias perspective.

[hanselot]

Giving examples of bias is as important imo, give it the unbiased facts as well as the biased ones so it can generalise relative objectivity.

[I_Am_Nous]

I agree with you, but I also wonder how the bias could be trained without it affecting the output of the entire model. Weights can help but anything that's higher weighted is just "less wrong" as I understand it, so I can see a possibility where training to expose bias might let bias creep in somewhat more than anticipated.