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tt24yesterday at 6:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

In what way does ChatGPT’s understanding of the term DEI not reflect reality?


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stvltvsyesterday at 7:39 PM

The pejorative sense of DEI has probably poisoned the training data. You might be able to prompt around it, but the existing prompt is pretty lazy.

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eesmithyesterday at 7:36 PM

From the article:

> For example, the AI searches [purportedly related to DEI] flagged .... a film examining how the game of baseball was “instrumental in healing wounds caused by World War I and the 1980s economic standoff between the US and Japan,”

How at all is that DEI? (Surely that should be WWII, yes? The complaint also says "I".)

And, is this also DEI?

> another charting “the rise and reforms of the Native Americans boarding school systems in the U.S. between 1819 and 1934,”

American football would be impoverished without the contributions of Native Americans from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an experimental Native American boarding school.

Pratt, who founded the school, wrote "If all men are created equal, then why were blacks segregated in separate regiments and Indians segregated on separate tribal reservations? Why weren't all men given equal opportunities and allowed to assume their rightful place in society? Race became a meaningless abstraction in his mind." Is that also DEI?

Would you care to summarize what DEI means in reality?

nancyminusoneyesterday at 7:05 PM

In the sense that viewpoints of people that use the term DEI do not appear to reflect reality?

What kind of sentiment do you think you would find in the training material regarding the term DEI?