Jamal Khashoggi

Twitter users and AI analysts called Arctotherium decided to update the paper's prompts with new LLMs, consistently ranking white people last, Claude Sonnet, GPT-5, and consistently ranking white Western nations last as well.

Your thoughts here on the biases we're seeing, Sax, in some of these models and these early studies to track it?

Fairbairn, any thoughts here on the biases and where it comes from inside of these LLMs?

Is it just garbage in, garbage out?

Intentional?

What are your thoughts having worked in Silicon Valley for a couple decades?

The difference is these are very subtle biases.

And we talked about before where these subtle biases come from.

And the New York Times actually just contacted me.

They're doing a story on Grokopedia, Wikipedia.

And I was like, maybe I'll participate in this.

We talked about this like two or three years ago.

If you look at the party affiliation of actual reporters, people who do reporting, not commentators like us, not Megan Kelly or Rachel Maddow, actual journalists who do that job function.

A large number of them here on the chart, the green, are independent.

So 50% of them like to think of themselves as independent.

You can read into that what you will.

But back in the day, it was 35% Democrat, 25% Republican in the 70s.

And you just see that red sliver there go down to 3.4%.

This is what happened to the Wikipedia.

So this trickle-down effect of there were Republicans did not feel welcome.