We tend to think of technology as pretty neutral - unthinking, unfeeling, and therefore unburdened by the human tendency towards bias - but with AI, the opposite is true. Unfortunately, and perhaps now more than ever, the internet is full of content that reflects human bigotry and AI not only picks up on it, but amplifies it in the content it produces.
Generative AI, especially the large consumer-focused models, are trained on data scraped from all corners of the internet - articles, videos, books, tweets, social media posts, and more.
