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David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago

The Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteria

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The Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteria

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David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) M to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago
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A social-commentary on the recent exchange between Paul Graham and Nigerian Twitter.
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    So a real fucked up layer to this is that part of the reason chatGPT talks the way it does is because it’s been fine-tuned to do so.

    And a lot of that fine tuning is done by outsourced African labor. We know about Kenyan and Ghana workers at minimum.

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      yep! And lots of people told pg this

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