China Seeks Bigger Role in AI Training Data to Counter Western Bias
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 17
China Seeks Bigger Role in AI Training Data to Counter Western Bias
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 17
Summary
China is pushing to become a major global supplier of the text, images and videos used to train AI systems, aiming to shape what chatbots and other tools know.
Beijing sees today’s AI training pool as too heavily English-language and Western in outlook, a gap it says weakens Chinese representation and limits the power of its own AI models.
That imbalance also carries political risk for the Communist Party, because Western views could dominate AI answers on issues such as human rights and Taiwan.
A 2023 Beijing Institute of Technology test of ChatGPT underscored those concerns, finding errors on Chinese culture and what researchers called biased commentary about China.