INFORMS: AI Thinks Like Us – Flaws and All: New Study Finds ChatGPT Mirrors Human Decision Biases in Half the Tests. “Can we really trust AI to make better decisions than humans? A new study says … not always. Researchers have discovered that OpenAI’s ChatGPT, one of the most advanced and popular AI models, makes the same kinds of decision-making mistakes as humans in some situations […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/ai-thinks-like-us-flaws-and-all-new-study-finds-chatgpt-mirrors-human-decision-biases-in-half-the-tests-informs/

Mit dem Islamwissenschaftler und Journalisten Fabian Goldmann
zur derzeitigen #Diskursverengung, #Framing #Medien #Meinung #Berichterstattung #Bias #SelektiveEmpörung #gaza #israel

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSxfH9p5lc

A new study finds that people tend to overestimate the size of small demographic groups because of cognitive errors in estimation of small proportions, not necessarily because of misinformation, ignorance, or animus. The authors emphasize that their findings do not negate the existence of those effects.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2413064122 (not open access)

Preprint at https://www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2024_misperceptions.pdf

Truthout.org is biased and anything but the truth. About as reliable as Truth Social. They've been dropped from my newslist.

Really interesting essay today by Caroline Criado Perez (if you haven’t read her book, Invisible Women, I highly recommend) on why she doesn’t think imposter “syndrome” exists, but rather that women feeling like imposters is a very rational response to a culture that treats women in many roles as imposters. There’s a perfection trap.

https://open.substack.com/pub/carolinecriadoperez/p/the-perfection-trap?r=18451&utm_medium=ios
#women #bias #data

Automating Injustice: “Predictive” policing in #Germany - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/automating-injustice-predictive-policing-germany/ #bias

People saw fresh #fruits and #vegetables as healthier than frozen or canned.

- Similar #health ratings helped people realize canned (but not frozen) could be as healthy (Study 1).
- Implicit association tests revealed indirect #bias for fresh over frozen and canned (Study 2).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105517

Surprise surprise:
“AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say”

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-models-miss-disease-black-female-patients

#Bias

Liberated from Paywall: https://archive.is/jEcbH

Nova Scotia judge given reprimand, agrees to treatment after review of complaints
He was alleged to have shown bias in two other cases, once against sexual assault victims and another time against Indigenous offenders.
#law #justice #bias #assault #NovaScotia #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11101211/nova-scotia-judge-alain-begin-reprimand/

Nova Scotia judge given reprimand, agrees to treatment after review of complaints
He was alleged to have shown bias in two other cases, once against sexual assault victims and another time against Indigenous offenders.
#law #justice #bias #assault #NovaScotia #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11101211/nova-scotia-judge-alain-begin-reprimand/

Corruption represents one of the most significant threats to democracy and respect for human rights, undermining not only the executive and legislative branches but often also the judiciary, military, and police. #Corruption #Felony #Bias

Kulinski's fashion choices are appalling.

but his political takes are accurate and succinct. He swears a lot. but his analysis is sharp and exactly right.

https://youtu.be/sUViYWTmgCA

OpenAI’s video generator is filled with racist, sexist, ableist and LGBTQ biases, like all generative AI I have seen so far. The story notes it really struggled with “interracial relationship” prompts.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sora-video-generator-bias/
#bias #ai

Americans have drowned in a sea of right wing propaganda.

https://youtu.be/YdhXRACHsPI

Maggie Haberman has been sanewashing everything the orange fascist does and says for a decade.

One day she accidentally reports a truth that he wanted kept secret and he turns on her in a heartbeat.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-haberman-musk/

Veteran UK anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony #Greenstein, eviscerates the BBCs coverage of the Gaza genocide in his most recent blogpost!

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/03/in-1930s-bbc-appeased-and-even_20.html?m=1

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4

“In the 1930s the BBC Appeased and Even Attempted to Justify the Nazi Regime’s Anti-Semitism – Today It Loves Israel and Zionism - Has Anything Changed?”

People know this is insane, right?