The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives?

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Seems like a poorly trained ML model - crudely speaking, perhaps its training set was tilted towards descriptions of conservative news sites so it learned to insert the word “conservative” when describing a news site.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but that does sound like a very possible explanation.

      Poo. I was hoping DDG would keep LLM-generated summaries out of their UI.

      • nyan@lemmy.cafe
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        1 year ago

        My guess is that they’re surfacing something from Bing rather than doing this themselves. Still Not Good, though.