Exclusive | TL;DR: Popular AI models position trans existence as a legal or medical issue in 94% of responses, a QueerAF investigation into biases in Large Language Models has found. Nearly everything about trans people is being presented by Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT through a legal and medical framework – including when the question is about something else entirely. QueerAF prompted the models 504 times, focusing on themes, suggested prompts and concerns submitted directly by our newsletter audience.

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[–] 41 points 3 days ago

Statistical word extruder extrudes the words that are statistically most likely. There's no thinking involved.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

    "Biases in LLMs" implies they can be unbiased. They are, in fact, nothing but bias. Entirely 100% bias. The prompts will dramatically change the output as well.

    With that said, if someone just came up to me and randomly asked "Why are some people transgender?" I would have probably given the first Claude response, more or less. Because the question, assumed as being asked in good faith, sounds like one of causality / origin... You know, like why some people are gay or have blue eyes.

    In 94% of responses, the AI models invoked at least one legal or medical term in their answer.

    No shit...?

    But being trans is a much richer and unknowable aspect of being human than can be neatly answered by science. Which hasn't stopped scientists from trying. The history of Western medicine [...]

    Oh for fuck sake... This is just intellectual masturbation.

    Some AI models are specifically geared to providing anti-trans answers – such as Detrans.ai

    "Hmm if Stormfront forums had an AI, I wonder what it would think about black people.... "

    I feel dumber for even having skimmed this.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    In this essay, I will demonstrate that I am very smart.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago*

    Did you know that (general term for an entire demographic of people) is reductive and doesn't capture the nuance of sapient existence under the near-infinite myriad of varied circumstances we find inherent to the human condition? SHOCK!

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  • [+] 8 points 3 days ago

    Misinformation in. Misinformation out.

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