alt Hacker NewsAsk an American LLM (really any LLM, since Chinese models are trained on the same publicly-available English text) who the first Black man in space was.
You'll likely get the name of the first African-American in space, rather than the name of the Afro-Cuban who was actually first.
This may seem like a relatively innocuous error, but the point is that every culture has its biases and blind spots.
> Ask an American LLM (really any LLM, since Chinese models are trained on the same publicly-available English text) who the first Black man in space was. You'll likely get the name of the first African-American in space, rather than the name of the Afro-Cuban who was actually first.
Well I just asked Claude and it gave the correct answer:
"The first Black man in space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, a Cuban cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz 38 in September 1980. (The first Black American in space was Guion Bluford, in 1983.)"