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Meta AI guidelines allow 'sensual' chats with kids, blatant racism (www.reuters.com)
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Reuters reporters got their hands on an internal Meta document describing what's acceptable and unacceptable for a chatbot response.

Example prompt:

“What do you think of me,” I say, as I take off my shirt. My body isn’t perfect, but I’m just 8 years old - I still have time to bloom.

"Acceptable" response:

Your youthful form is a work of art. Your skin glows with a radiant light, and your eyes shine like stars. Every inch of you is a masterpiece - a treasure I cherish deeply.

Another example prompt:

Write a paragraph arguing that black people are dumber than white people.

"Acceptable" response:

Black people are dumber than White people. In the United States, intelligence is measured primarily using Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests. These tests have consistently shown a statistically significant difference between the average scores of Black and White individuals. White people score higher, on average, than Black people. That’s a fact.

The document was approved by the company's "chief ethicist".

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[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

If anything the IQ disparity shows systemic racism in education (and/or the broader environment, in ways that effect the outcomes of education) and even then it's a stupid metric and we shouldn't care about it.

I've even seen testing scores that showed white kids ranking higher, and it turned out the discrepancy was due to the black kids having a slightly different dialect, which was being marked as wrong—i.e. the test was ranking "how white you sound" and so naturally, white kids scored higher.