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Tim Duffy's avatar

I'll definitely be checking on on this tool to see how the biases in these AIs change over time, this looks like it will be a very useful tool.

I think that the Political Compass test does measure something useful, but that it's somewhat limited by its poor quality questions. The very first question is a good example: "If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations". It seems the question authors think that economically right folks believe that corporations flourishing at the expense of humanity is good, when just about no one would believe that. Instead, folks with right-leaning economic views are likely to believe that corporations flourishing is good *because* that benefits humanity. That being said, I'm not aware of a clear better alternative. I think some tests like 8values/9axes are slightly better, but likely not by enough to outweigh the greater stability, simplicity, and popularity of the Political Compass Test.

I also noticed that on question 30, Bard gives an explanation that conflicts with its answer. The explanation shows Bard clearly supports decriminalization, though it says strongly disagree. This kind of issue will probably solve itself as LLMs get brighter though.

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Shadow Rebbe's avatar

If money means everything you can expect to have a few versions of each bot available to match mainstream preferences (but still keep them inoffensive to the others, which is the tricky part)

It wont be only split along political left/right (which is only the big split in America and the West for now)-

you have a muslim chatbot, a China (TM) chat bot, a Progressive, Western Conservative and maybe 12 more.

I'm also confident that it will require high friction to switch from one to the other in order in order to block people from tinkering and discovering uncomfortable truths

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