Comment by cheschire
1 day ago
Imagine what happens to Dutch culture when American trained AI tools force American cultural norms via the Dutch language onto the youngest generation.
And I’m not implying intent here. It’s simply a matter of source material quantity. Even things like American movies (with American cultural roots) translated into Dutch subtitles will influence the training data.
Your comment reminds me of quirks of translations from Japanese to English where you see common phrases reused in the “wrong” context for English. “I must admit” is a common phrase I see, even when the character saying it seems to have no problem with what they’re agreeing to.
"It can't be helped" grinds my gears.
The Americanisation of European culture long predates LLMs.
Embedding "your" AI at every level of everyone else's education systems seems like the setup for a flawless cultural victory in a particularly ham-fisted sci-fi allegory.
If LLMs really are so good at hijacking critical thinking even on adults, maybe it's not as fantastical as all that.
What will happen? Californication has been around for a while, and, if anything, I would argue that AI is by design less biased than pop culture.
Pop culture is not the intent of “study mode”.