[somenameforme]

Modern chatbots are trained on a large corpus of all textual information available across the entire world, which obviously is reflective of a vast array of views and values. Your comment is a perfect example of the sort of casual and socially encouraged soft bigotry that many want to get away from. Instead of trying to spin information this way or that, simply let the information be, warts and all.

Imagine if search engines adopted this same sort of moral totalitarian mindset and if you happened to search for the 'wrong' thing, the engine would instead start offering you a patronizing and blathering lecture, and refuse to search. And 'wrong' in this case would be an ever-encroaching window on anything that happened to run contrary to the biases of the small handful of people engaged, on a directorial level, with developing said search engines.

[mavhc]

Encoding our current biases into LLMs is one way to go, but there's probably a better way to do it.

Your leap to "thou shalt not search this" is missing the possible middle ground

[fjdjshsh]

The problem is with the word "our". If it's just private companies, the biases will represent a small minority of people that tend to be quite similar. Plus, they might be guided by profit motives or by self-censorship ("I don't mind, but I'm scared they'll boycott the product if I don't put this bias").

I have no idea how to make it happen, but the talk about biases, safeguards, etc should be made between many different people and not just within a private company.

[fragmede]

Search for "I do coke" on Google. At least in the US, the first result is not a link to the YouTube video of the song by Kill the Noise and Feed Me, but the text "Help is available, Speak with someone today", with a link to the SAMHSA website and hotline.

[andoando]

Yes and the safeguards are put in place by a very small group of people living in silicon valley.

I saw this issue working at Tinder too. One day they announced how they will be removing ethnicity filters at the height of the BLM movement across all the apps to weed out racists. Nevermind that many ethnical minorities prefer or even insist on dating within their own ethnicity and this was most likely hurting them and not racists.

That really pissed me off and opened my eyes to how much power these corporations have over dictating culture, not just toward their own cultural biasis but that of money.