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On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE with automatic weapons, then dropped a bomb on it, killing five adults and six children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black…
On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE with automatic weapons, then dropped a bomb on it, killing five adults and six children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black…
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Good idea: Do not use AI-Bots as a source (bard, chatGPT, claude, grok...)
https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/05/13/chatbots-tell-people-what-they-want-to-hear/
Despite being perceived as neutral, chatbots tend to echo the beliefs of users, reinforcing their ideologies. This "echo chamber effect" is heightened by the conversational nature of interactions with chatbots, where users express their opinions in full questions rather than keywords. As a result, chatbots provide responses that align with users' existing attitudes, potentially exacerbating societal polarization. Efforts to counteract this effect, such as training chatbots to present opposing viewpoints or providing source information for fact-checking, have shown limited success. These findings underscore the need for awareness of bias in AI systems and the challenges in mitigating their impact on public discourse.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/05/13/chatbots-tell-people-what-they-want-to-hear/
Despite being perceived as neutral, chatbots tend to echo the beliefs of users, reinforcing their ideologies. This "echo chamber effect" is heightened by the conversational nature of interactions with chatbots, where users express their opinions in full questions rather than keywords. As a result, chatbots provide responses that align with users' existing attitudes, potentially exacerbating societal polarization. Efforts to counteract this effect, such as training chatbots to present opposing viewpoints or providing source information for fact-checking, have shown limited success. These findings underscore the need for awareness of bias in AI systems and the challenges in mitigating their impact on public discourse.
Johns Hopkins University
Chatbots tell us what we want to hear
JHU-led team finds that chatbots reinforce our biases, providing insight into how AI could widen the public divide on controversial issues
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On this day, 15 May 1948, the British mandate in Palestine ended on the date which is now commemorated as Nakba Day - meaning “catastrophe”. Israel declared independence a few hours beforehand, and British forces withdrew that day.The Nakba refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for the establishment of the state of Israel as a Jewish ethnostate.The United Nations had approved a plan to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. According to that plan, the 30% of the population which was Jewish would be given 70% of the land. But around 42% of the population of this land would still be Palestinian Arabs. To ensure a bigger demographic majority, in December 1947 Zionist militias began a programme of ethnic cleansing, to expel the Palestinian Arab population. One early operation was an attack by the Irgun against the village of al-Tira, which killed 12 Palestinians and injured six others. Albert Einstein and other Jewish intellectuals described the Irgun as "a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organisation".Attacks and massacres continued until the British withdrawal. Haifa was attacked in April, forcing its 55,000 residents to flee, and then Safad was besieged, until its population of nearly 10,000 people was expelled.After the end of the British mandate, armies from Arab countries including Egypt and Jordan entered Palestine and the Arab-Israeli war began. Meanwhile, the ethnic cleansing continued. On May 22, Zionists massacred between 100 and 230 people in the village of al-Tantura.By the time the war ended in 1949, 8000-15,000 Palestinian Arabs had been killed and over 400 towns and villages had been destroyed and ethnically cleansed. Israel had taken over 77% of the land area of Mandate Palestine, and expelled over 700,000 Palestinians - 90% of the Arab population.The Nakba was first commemorated on May 15 by Palestinians in 1949, and Nakba Day became an official annual commemoration in 1998.We are finishing up a double podcast episode on Palestine under the British mandate. You can help fund its production and get first listen in a few days on our patreon: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistoryLink in bio
On this day, 15 May 1948, the British mandate in Palestine ended on the date which is now commemorated as Nakba Day - meaning “catastrophe”. Israel declared independence a few hours beforehand, and British forces withdrew that day.The Nakba refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for the establishment of the state of Israel as a Jewish ethnostate.The United Nations had approved a plan to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. According to that plan, the 30% of the population which was Jewish would be given 70% of the land. But around 42% of the population of this land would still be Palestinian Arabs. To ensure a bigger demographic majority, in December 1947 Zionist militias began a programme of ethnic cleansing, to expel the Palestinian Arab population. One early operation was an attack by the Irgun against the village of al-Tira, which killed 12 Palestinians and injured six others. Albert Einstein and other Jewish intellectuals described the Irgun as "a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organisation".Attacks and massacres continued until the British withdrawal. Haifa was attacked in April, forcing its 55,000 residents to flee, and then Safad was besieged, until its population of nearly 10,000 people was expelled.After the end of the British mandate, armies from Arab countries including Egypt and Jordan entered Palestine and the Arab-Israeli war began. Meanwhile, the ethnic cleansing continued. On May 22, Zionists massacred between 100 and 230 people in the village of al-Tantura.By the time the war ended in 1949, 8000-15,000 Palestinian Arabs had been killed and over 400 towns and villages had been destroyed and ethnically cleansed. Israel had taken over 77% of the land area of Mandate Palestine, and expelled over 700,000 Palestinians - 90% of the Arab population.The Nakba was first commemorated on May 15 by Palestinians in 1949, and Nakba Day became an official annual commemoration in 1998.We are finishing up a double podcast episode on Palestine under the British mandate. You can help fund its production and get first listen in a few days on our patreon: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistoryLink in bio
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