AI Training Data Bias

Discussions center on how biases in AI and machine learning models, particularly LLMs, originate from biased training data reflecting human and societal prejudices, with debates on whether models inherently amplify or merely inherit these biases.

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beardedwizard Dec 23, 2019 View on HN

How are you managing human bias in this model?

_def Aug 17, 2023 View on HN

Am I thinking to simple that it's obvious? Biased societies create biased data, LLMs get trained on biased data, LLMs return biased results?

tarruda Feb 10, 2024 View on HN

LLMs are not magic, they inherit whatever bias is in its training data.

Decker87 Sep 1, 2021 View on HN

Can anyone ELI5 what the source of bias is outside of the biased training data?

njanirudh Dec 4, 2020 View on HN

Its more like " There are difficulties on collecting data and historical reasons that leads to bias in the trained model" Other side " no you are a racist and responsible for bias due for being a white male"

CapriciousCptl Jun 23, 2020 View on HN

I don't even think he said "model's don't cause bias," he just said "ML systems are biased when data is biased."

xxbondsxx May 13, 2020 View on HN

This is awesome! What kind of bias would we expect to see in the training set?

protocolture Jul 30, 2025 View on HN

So the bias is left to the AI's training set?

macsj200 Jun 17, 2020 View on HN

It's crazy the model can learn implicit biases even when you don't supply that data!

DyslexicAtheist Feb 27, 2017 View on HN

I'm not so sure. seems to be human bias on top of data bias. great for context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdCJYsKlX_Y