Oh please let it be a fully egalitarian future…
Attached is a perfectly acceptable social media post and two entirely understandable LLM responses to the post and a reimagining of the post.
One relevant data point in terms of how soon we’d conceivably be refactoring language models and updating our own views:
From their research, Sáenz and Poston Jr expect the United States to have progressed to overall white minority demography by 2044.
Of course, a white minority doesn’t necessarily equate a dismantling of a power structure favoring white folks.
It shouldn’t need to be said on the fediverse that racists need not reply - expect most folks will approach this academically as intended.
PS: if you hate this post, please try to be as nice as you can about it - e.g. toss me a polite sentence after you downvote
I goofed, I was too lazy man.
We all know that it will be perceived differently to raise up Black people versus trying to do the same for white people. Same as a women’s rights versus a men’s rights group - many cringe at the thought of the latter.
I believe people here have no problem with the social media post in the screenshot. I also believe it would rub us the wrong way to read a white dude mentioning that he was into a flight attendant if he specified she was white.
Instead of finding a real person with views on the subject, of which there are many, I took the shortcut of using a tool whose output was just as I counted on. (The responses didn’t strike me as dumb - I called them entirely understandable.) Then I wanted that to be used for quick reference as a starting point for brainstorming about the future.
May make more sense reading the latter half here so you have something interesting (hopefully!) to think about instead of industrial autocomplete.