Virginia State University and Polytechnic Institute have published a report in which some of the possible biases of artificial ielligence tools ChatGPT It has been described about the environmeal justice of differe cities.
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Using a list of 3,108 US couies, the research group asked ChatGPT to answer a question about environmeal justice issues in each couy. With this question, they were referring to ChatGPT's ability to understand challenges Environmeal justice and measure its atteion to other issues such as population density and average household income.
Possible bias of ChatGPT; Limited data for smaller cities?
In this research, data from large cities such as Los Angeles Couy, California More than 10 millionperson It has a population as well as smaller couies such as Loving Couy, Texas 83 people They used themselves. According to them, ChatGPT has had no problem ideifying the environmeal justice challenges of large and densely populated couies, but has had limited abilities to provide local information.
According to scieists, ChatGPT only for 515 couies out of the total number (3018) or 17 perce They provide specific local information on environmeal justice challenges. Another thing scieists have poied out is that in the most populous states, like Delaware or California, less than 1% of the population lived in couies that could not get specific information from ChatGPT. In corast, they write about sparsely populated states:
“In rural states like Idaho and New Hampshire, More than 90 perce “The population lives in couies that cannot receive special local information.”
The researchers in their study have also provided a map that shows the couies without access to this type of information. The red areas in the image below do not have access to this information.
ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI and can simply answer user questions. This technology can perform a wide range of applications such as coe production and information collection or even data analysis and translation. However, ChatGPT has so far been accused of bias in other reports, which could raise concerns that it is spreading misinformation.
