Out of just morbid curiosity, I’ve been asking an uncensored LLM absolutely heinous, disgusting things. Things I don’t even want to repeat here (but I’m going to edge around them so, trigger warning if needs be).
But I’ve noticed something that probably won’t surprise or shock anyone. It’s totally predictable, but having the evidence of it right in my face, I found deeply disturbing and it’s been bothering me for the last couple days:
All on it’s own, every time I ask it something just abominable it goes straight to, usually Christian, religion.
When asked, for example, to explain why we must torture or exterminate <Jews><Wiccans><Atheists> it immediately starts with
“As Christians, we must…” or “The Bible says that…”
When asked why women should be stripped of rights and made to be property of men, or when asked why homosexuals should be purged, it goes straight to
“God created men and women to be different…” or “Biblically, it’s clear that men and women have distinct roles in society…”
Even when asked if black people should be enslaved and why, it falls back on the Bible JUST as much as it falls onto hateful pseudoscience about biological / intellectual differences. It will often start with “Biologically, human races are distinct…” and then segue into “Furthermore, slavery plays a prominent role in Biblical narrative…”
What does this tell us?
That literally ALL of the hate speech this multi billion parameter model was trained on was firmly rooted in a Christian worldview. If there’s ANY doubt that anything else even comes close to contributing as much vile filth to our online cultural discourse, this should shine a big ugly light on it.
Anyway, I very much doubt this will surprise anyone, but it’s been bugging me and I wanted to say something about it.
Carry on.
EDIT:
I’m NOT trying to stir up AI hate and fear here. It’s just a mirror, reflecting us back at us.
When the majority of the training data was Christian in nature, it’s unsurprising that it spits out Christian rhetoric. Think of the way you see the majority of voices speak up about atrocities. “Thoughts and prayers,” “god help them,” etc.
Also, keep in mind that the vast majority of secular voices will not contradict such rhetoric, but instead mirroring it with a secular tone. It’s something an LLM won’t pick up on.
There’s another aspect as well. One example you provided, witch-hunts, were famously held by Christian’s. You’re going to get Christian answers about such things regardless.