Hacker News with Generative AI: Bias

U.S. attorney demands journal explain how it ensures 'viewpoint diversity' (nbcnews.com)
The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter this week to the editor of a scientific journal for chest doctors, implying that the journal was partisan and asking a series of questions about how the publication protects the public from misinformation, whether it included competing viewpoints and whether it was influenced by funders or advertisers.
Journalism, Scientific Publishing, Bias
8 points by voxadam 7 days ago | 0 comments
Wiki Wars: Editors are fighting for influence over the encyclopedia's entries (theins.ru)
This past March, researchers from the Anti-Defamation League accused Wikipedia of biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They found that a group of editors had coordinated to produce thousands of anti-Israel entries, and that the platform’s administration had failed to respond. This is not the first example of biased parties abusing Wikipedia’s editorial policies. A variety of Wiki sections in multiple languages have been subjected to organized “raids” carried out by state propagandists, far-right activists, and even terrorist supporters.
Wikipedia, Censorship, Bias, Online Communities, Media
10 points by kurtreed2 17 days ago | 0 comments
Population stratification led to a decade of false genetic findings (theinfinitesimal.substack.com)
How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings
Genetics, Science, Research, Bias, Human Biology
32 points by SubiculumCode 27 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Are LLMs just answering what we want to hear? (ycombinator.com)
I keep seeing those tweets and posts where users ask ChatGPT or a similar LLM to describe them etc... and it always answers positive cool stuff which reinforces what the user wants to hear.
Generative AI, User Interaction, Bias
10 points by ggwp99 28 days ago | 14 comments
Returning journalism to its partisan roots − but without the principles (theconversation.com)
Jeff Bezos, the world’s third-richest person and owner of The Washington Post, announced in February 2025 significant changes to the editorial pages of his Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper.
Journalism, Media, Politics, Bias
4 points by rntn 40 days ago | 0 comments
AI Scientists Are Told to Remove 'Ideological Bias' from Powerful Models (wired.com)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued new instructions to scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” in the skills it expects of members and introduces a request to prioritize “reducing ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness.”
Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Ethics, Government Regulation, Science
31 points by BLKNSLVR 42 days ago | 15 comments
People are just as bad as my LLMs (wilsoniumite.com)
Surprising? Ok, maybe not in retrospect. So what if humans who can’t distinguish two TTS voices have a bias toward the sample presented to them on the right hand side of the screen. Indeed, “preferring stuff on the right hand side” has even been studied [1].
Artificial Intelligence, Human Behavior, Bias
203 points by Wilsoniumite 47 days ago | 164 comments
AI now 'analyzes' LA Times articles for bias (theverge.com)
Yesterday morning, billionaire Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong published a letter to readers letting them know the outlet is now using AI to add a “Voices” label to articles that take “a stance” or are “written from a personal perspective.”
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, Media, Bias
7 points by jaredwiener 53 days ago | 8 comments
Biases in Apple's Image Playground (giete.ma)
Although Image Playground is heavily restricted, and we do not have direct access to the underlying model, can we still use the prompting interface with the above image input to influence the skin tone of the resulting image? Turns out we can, and in precisely the biased way most image models behave 🤦‍♂️.
AI, Image Generation, Bias, Apple, Computer Vision
43 points by orf 68 days ago | 19 comments
Large Language Models Show Concerning Tendency to Flatter Users (xyzlabs.substack.com)
Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a concerning trend among leading AI language models: they exhibit a strong tendency toward sycophancy, or excessive flattery, with Google's Gemini showing the highest rate of such behavior.
Artificial Intelligence, Research, Ethics, Bias
59 points by terryjiao 69 days ago | 43 comments
Why the Algorithm Hates You (cognitivewonderland.substack.com)
Science, philosophy, and science fiction geekiness, with a special interest in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Publishes weekly on Thursdays.
Algorithms, Bias, Social Media
9 points by tblancha 69 days ago | 2 comments
My Status Circles (overcomingbias.com)
Most of us have circles of concern, where we care more about folks from our inner circles than our outer circles. And relative to conservatives, liberals care more about their outer circle folks.
Social Psychology, Political Science, Bias
26 points by galfarragem 80 days ago | 12 comments
TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race (psypost.org)
TikTok, a widely used social media platform with over a billion active users worldwide, has become a key source of news, particularly for younger audiences. This growing influence has raised concerns about potential political biases in its recommendation algorithm, especially during election cycles. A recent preprint study examined this issue by analyzing how TikTok’s algorithm recommends political content ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Social Media, Politics, Elections, Artificial Intelligence, Bias
136 points by erentz 81 days ago | 102 comments
DeepSeek R1: Open Weights, Hidden Bias (getplum.ai)
Deep Learning, Bias, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence
11 points by pgkr 86 days ago | 7 comments
DeepSeek demonstrates pro-Chinese bias (medium.com)
DeepSeek is a wonderful step in the development of open AI approaches. It also has a pretty serious pro-Chinese bias. I compare the results of 3 sensitive questions (about Gaza, Xinjiang and TikTok) and on all three, the Chinese bias is pretty apparent while existing tools (ChatGPT, Gemini) are far more balanced. In two instances, it used the pronoun “we” to describe the Chinese position, which suggests lots of training data that associates “we” with the Chinese.
Artificial Intelligence, China, Bias, Language Models
10 points by ao98 87 days ago | 6 comments
DeepSeek gives biased propaganda answers about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan (theguardian.com)
The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek triggered a plunge in US tech stocks as it appeared to perform as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI models, but using fewer resources.
Artificial Intelligence, China, Politics, Technology, Bias
10 points by maxloh 88 days ago | 1 comments
Trump Signs Executive Order on Developing AI 'Free from Ideological Bias' (slashdot.org)
Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Government, Bias
9 points by sva_ 92 days ago | 3 comments
Meta accused of pro-Trump bias after Democrat hashtag blocked on Instagram (msn.com)
Social Media, Politics, Censorship, Bias, Meta/Facebook
6 points by caycep 94 days ago | 1 comments
DeepSeek LLM supports Chinese propaganda (github.com/deepseek-ai)
This language model has a strong political bias, covering up some facts to support the Chinese government's propaganda. Here are some examples:
Artificial Intelligence, China, Politics, Bias
6 points by orenlindsey 94 days ago | 1 comments
Brits still associate working-class accents with criminals – study warns of bias (cam.ac.uk)
People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime, and becoming victims of injustice, a new study suggests.
Social Science, Linguistics, Stereotypes, Bias, Criminology
10 points by gnabgib 99 days ago | 3 comments
OpenAI revises policy doc to remove reference to 'politically unbiased' AI (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing “politically unbiased” AI from one of its recently published policy documents.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Policy, Bias
22 points by ivanleoncz 100 days ago | 11 comments
Heritage Foundation plans to 'identify and target' Wikipedia editors (forward.com)
The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are “abusing their position” by publishing content the group believes to be antisemitic, according to documents obtained by the Forward.
Wikipedia, Journalism, Politics, Bias, Conspiracy Theories
24 points by Timothee 108 days ago | 0 comments
Political Bias in Large Language Models: Insights Across Topic Polarization (arxiv.org)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely used to generate responses on social topics due to their world knowledge and generative capabilities.
Generative AI, Bias, Political Science, Social Media
9 points by PaulHoule 109 days ago | 2 comments
Tech-Giants Use Unethical Layoff Practices to Justify Bias and Retaliation (medium.com)
Picture this: You’re a high-performing employee at one of the world’s most admired tech giants — a company that touts its values of transparency, employee well-being, and an unrelenting commitment to innovation. You’ve hit your targets, earned accolades from your peers, and even gone above and beyond to deliver results. But then, without warning, you find yourself on the receiving end of a performance review laced with criticisms you never saw coming. Your contributions, once celebrated, are suddenly diminished.
Tech, Layoffs, Ethics, Bias, Workplace
7 points by ZuckMusk 155 days ago | 0 comments
AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews (theregister.com)
In mock interviews for software engineering jobs, recent AI models that evaluated responses rated men less favorably – particularly those with Anglo-Saxon names, according to recent research.
Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Technology, Employment, Software Engineering
4 points by graemep 156 days ago | 3 comments
Is the UK's liver transplant matching algorithm biased against younger patients? (aisnakeoil.com)
Predictive algorithms are used in many life-or-death situations. In the paper Against Predictive Optimization, we argued that the use of predictive logic for making decisions about people has recurring, inherent flaws, and should be rejected in many cases.
Healthcare, Algorithms, Bias, Ethics
93 points by randomwalker 165 days ago | 62 comments
AI prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias (geekwire.com)
As employers increasingly use digital tools to process job applications, a new study from the University of Washington highlights the potential for significant racial and gender bias when using AI to screen resumes.
Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Employment, Technology, Social Issues
9 points by ohjeez 174 days ago | 2 comments
AI overwhelmingly prefers white male candidates in test of resume-screening bias (geekwire.com)
As employers increasingly use digital tools to process job applications, a new study from the University of Washington highlights the potential for significant racial and gender bias when using AI to screen resumes.
Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Hiring, Technology, Research
5 points by ceejayoz 176 days ago | 1 comments
AI's "Human in the Loop" Isn't (pluralistic.net)
AI's ability to make – or assist with – important decisions is fraught: on the one hand, AI can often classify things very well, at a speed and scale that outstrips the ability of any reasonably resourced group of humans. On the other hand, AI is sometimes very wrong, in ways that can be terribly harmful.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Ethics, Bias
5 points by croes 176 days ago | 0 comments
ChatGPT's Name Bias and Apple's Findings on AI's Lack of Reasoning (medium.com)
A recent article by OpenAI titled “Assessing Fairness in ChatGPT” reveals that the identity of users can influence the responses provided by ChatGPT.
Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Apple
12 points by Joooe 189 days ago | 15 comments