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- Latimer AI plans to launch a bias detection tool as a Chrome browser extension in January.
- The tool scores text from one to 10, with 10 being extremely biased.
- Latimer AI hopes the product will attract new users.
Bias is in the eye of the beholder, yet it’s increasingly being evaluated by AI. Latimer AI, a startup that’s building AI tools on a repository of Black datasets, plans to launch a bias detection tool as a Chrome browser extension in January.
The company anticipates the product could be used by people who run official social media accounts, or anyone who wants to be mindful of their tone online, Latimer CEO John Pasmore told Business Insider.
“When we test Latimer against other applications, we take a query and score the response. So we’ll score our response, we’ll score ChatGPT or Claude’s response, against the same query and see who scores better from a bias perspective,” Pasmore said. “It’s using our internal algorithm to not just score text, but then correct it.”
The tool assigns a score from one through 10 to text, with 10 being extremely biased.
Patterns of where bias is found online, are already emerging from beta testing of the product.
For instance, text from an April post by Elon Musk, in which he apologized for calling Dustin Moskowitz a derogatory name, was compared to an August post from Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.
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Musks’ post scored 6.8 out of 10, or “High Bias,” while Graber’s scored 3.6 out of 10, or “Low Bias”.
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Latimer’s technology proposed a “fix” to the text in Musk’s post by changing it to the following: “I apologize to Dustin Moskowitz for my previous inappropriate comment. It was wrong. What I intended to express is that I find his attitude to be overly self-important. I hope we can move past this and potentially become friends in the future.”
While what is deemed biased is subjective, Latimer isn’t alone in trying to tackle this challenge through technology. The LA Times plans to display a “bias meter” in 2025, for instance.
Latimer hopes its bias tool will draw in more users.
“This will help us identify a different set of users who might not use a large language model, but might use a browser extension,” Pasmore said.
The bias detector will launch at $1 a month, and a pro version will let users access multiple bias detection algorithms.
This article was originally published by Monica Melton at All Content from Business Insider – Read this article and more at (https://www.businessinsider.com/latimer-ai-launch-bias-detection-chrome-browser-tool-2024-12).
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