Bias
Where bias comes from in people and machines, and why it behaves like context rather than a bug.
4 essays, newest first
- The Infinite Review Every AI reviewer finds one more critical finding, because finding problems looks like work. The bias is human first. The fix is not a better prompt, it is a file: how we gave our reviews a terminal state.
- There Is a New Voter in the Room: Words, Quantum Collapse and LLMs The quantum analogy for words, tested: how a finished sentence shapes reality for you, your listener and the LLM, and why AI defends its first answer. Part 17 of Not So Artificial.
- I Engineer Illusory Truth for Machines. It's Called GEO. The rule that wins my brand work is to repeat one sentence in the same shape across enough places until a model says it back as fact. That is a named cognitive bias, run on a machine, and I bill for it. A field note on the part I cannot put down.
- The Flaw: Why You Cannot Code Bias Out of AI Can AI be unbiased? No mind generalizes without some bias, and AI trained on our text learns ours. Bias can be reduced; the debiasing to fear only hides it.