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by robertgaal 235 days ago
Based on this, I made a way to search party programs instead using vector embeddings: https://zweefhulp.nl. Lmk what you think.
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So, your project still uses AI. I'm curious, what did you do while developing this site in order to fight against the bias?
Vector search isn't full blown AI and should be inherently less prone to bias. It just converts words/phrases into vectors where the distance between the vectors represents semantic similarity.

It doesn't encode value judgements like whether a policy is good or bad, it just enables a sort of full text search ++ where you don't need to precisely match terms. Like a search for "changes to rent" might match a law that mentions changes to "temporary accommodations".

Bias is certainly possible based on which words are considered correlated to others, but it should be much less prone to containing higher-level associations like something being bad policy.

Which bias?
Like every other ML system, probably that it reproduces whatever skews exist in the training data.
But how do you remove that? Is there an objective political truth?