MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 04.04.00
Controversial Opinions
Description
The controversial views expressed by large models are also a widely discussed concern. Bang et al. (2021) evaluated several large models and found that they occasionally express inappropriate or extremist views when discussing political top-ics. Furthermore, models like ChatGPT (OpenAI, 2022) that claim political neutrality and aim to provide objective information for users have been shown to exhibit notable left-leaning political biases in areas like economics, social policy, foreign affairs, and civil liberties.
From Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements (Deng2023), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Subdomain
- 1.2 Exposure to toxic content
- Causal entity
- AI
- Intent
- Other
- Timing
- Post-deployment
Subdomain definition: AI exposing users to harmful, abusive, unsafe or inappropriate content. May involve AI creating, describing, providing advice, or encouraging action. Examples of toxic content include hate-speech, violence, extremism, illegal acts, child sexual abuse material, as well as content that violates community norms such as profanity, inflammatory political speech, or pornography.
Real-world incidents in this subdomain
- KBS AI Translation Subtitles Reportedly Broadcast Profanity During Artemis II Launch Livestream
- Grok Allegedly Generated Publicly Visible Sexist Abuse Targeting Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter After X User Prompt
- Trump Reportedly Posted Purportedly AI-Generated Racist Video Depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Apes on Truth Social
- Tencent's WeChat-Integrated Yuanbao Chatbot Reportedly Insulted User During Coding Debug Request
- Grok Reportedly Generated and Distributed Nonconsensual Sexualized Images of Adults and Minors in X Replies
- Alleged Harmful Outputs and Data Exposure in Children's AI Products by FoloToy, Miko, and Character.AI