The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives?

  • @[email protected]
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    3111 months ago

    Yeah where are those descriptions coming from? Also mentions “the strike workers’ strike” and repeats “politics” twice

    • @[email protected]
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      11 months ago

      Seems like a poorly trained ML model - crudely speaking, perhaps its training set was tilted towards descriptions of conservative news sites so it learned to insert the word “conservative” when describing a news site.

      • tuckerm
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        3111 months ago

        I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but that does sound like a very possible explanation.

        Poo. I was hoping DDG would keep LLM-generated summaries out of their UI.

        • @[email protected]
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          1711 months ago

          My guess is that they’re surfacing something from Bing rather than doing this themselves. Still Not Good, though.

    • radix
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      1011 months ago

      That makes it sound like an outdated LLM, like GPT-2 or something. You think it is?

      • hedgeOP
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        411 months ago

        Alas, not smart enough to know 🙁