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by the_third_wave 875 days ago
Getting GPT (any version) to be "politically neutral" seems to be an exercise in futility given that the models have been shown to be inherently biased [1-6]. Given that GPT decides which stories are 'important' this bias immediately comes into play in the form of selection bias. How do you handle this known bias and what is your opinion on your success in getting the output to be as neutral (politically) as possible?

[1] https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/article/fresh-evidence-of-c...

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/17/openai-chatg...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-politics-of-ai-chatgp...

[4] https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/chatgpt_political_bia...

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10623051/

[6] https://bgr.com/general/openais-chatgpt-has-a-major-politica...

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All these "research" are so deeply confused about what GPT is. GPT is an actor acting a persona, not a persona. An actor acts whatever political orientation the role has, they don't act their own political orientation.

These "research" are just testing the default persona, which is easily changed by system prompt. Getting GPT to be politically neutral is trivial, it is far from being an exercise in futility. Ignore all these reports of "research" and test it yourself: I have high success rate and you will have too.