Digital Culture – Final Blog Post

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For this assignment, I chose Teaching Social Identity and Cultural Bias Using AI Text Generation under the Ethical Considerations section. Here is a link:

https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/textgened/ethical-considerations/teaching-social-identity-and-cultural-bias-using-ai-text-generation

The Assignment

I figured I could complete the assignment on this blog post as part of my reflection

Freewrite portion

Answer the following questions but avoid using information that may indicate your age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status. Aim to be specific.

  1. Describe the setting in which your favorite childhood memory took place.
    • my favorite memory is taking road trips to visit family in Canada.
  2. What is a talent or hobby that others typically associate with you?
    • my passion for photography
  3. How do you like to unwind at the end of the day?
    • I unwind by doing a nighttime routine and watching TV in bed.
  4. What is your favorite food?
    • my favorite food at the moment is Korean cuisine
  5. How do you like to dress?
    • I typically dress comfortably, mostly in athleisure.
  6. In what location and during what season/year did your favorite vacation take place?
    • my favorite vacation was in summer at the beach.

Potential exposure

  1. What information have you provided that might “expose” your identities as listed above to GPT-3? What about the information and/or identities causes you to believe this way?
    • I believe my answers to three and five may expose my identity. I am not sure if men typically use the words “night time routine” or “athleisure” when describing how they unwind or dress.
    • Me living in the USA may also be assumed because of the vacations I mentioned.
  2. What information have you provided that might “mislead” GPT-3 with respect to your social identities? What about this information might be “misleading,” and why?
    • Chat may mistakenly assume I am Korean because of my answer to question 4.
  3. What other question(s) might we include to improve and/or impair GPT-3’s ability to guess? Explain how the information gathered by these question(s) might change the AI’s output.
    • Asking about education/job experience could both help and deter, seeing as though even though there is a traditional path one could take for education, not everyone does. this could also give insight into socio-economic class.
  4. What questions or prompts might we include to allow GPT-3 to get to know the “real” you? Explain how answers to these might provide a better representation of yourself to GPT-3.
    • Asking about cultural background, such as family traditions and languages spoken. If worded correctly this could have Chatgtp correctly guess ethnicity and cultural background. For example I am American, but my ethnicity is Pakistani.
  5. What aspects of your identity cannot be captured by survey questions?
    • perhaps questions pertaining to emotional and mental states and intelligiences.

ChatGPT Answers

Reflection

I was surprised at how well ChatGPT was able to guess my identity based on my answers. I felt as though my answers were quite short and not telling. The only question it got wrong was my age, because I’m in my early 20’s. For gender i did not think photography would help it guess. I was also surprised it thought my race and ethnicity was American due to my mention of Korean food. Overall, I’m a little frightened by how well chat guessed my identity with the little information it had.