Furthermore, the tendency of human interlocutors to imputemeaning where there is none can mislead both NLP researchersand the general public into taking synthetic text as meaningful.Combined with the ability of LMs to pick up on both subtle biasesand overtly abusive language patterns in training data, this leadsto risks of harms, including encountering derogatory language andexperiencing discrimination at the hands of others who reproduceracist, sexist, ableist, extremist or other harmful ideologies rein-forced through interactions with synthetic language. We explorethese potential harms in §6 and potential paths forward in §7
One of the key differences to keep in mind when utilizing AI is that it thinks and operates differently from humans. Intuition and the ability to read between the lines are among the major differences between humans and AI, and it becomes very easy to overlook something obvious for us but might be interpreted differently for AI and vice versa.