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Lesson 5 of 8 · 5 min
It Learned From Us
A computer answer can be unfair and still sound objective.
Big idea: AI averages what people already wrote, and the average of human writing is not the same as fair.
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Bias in, bias out
The model learned from text and images made by people — including all the unfair assumptions people carry. So it repeats them. Ask older image generators for “a scientist” and you'd get a wall of older white men in lab coats; ask for “a criminal” and the results skewed in ugly, predictable ways. The machine didn't invent those patterns. It absorbed ours and handed them back polished.