{"id":8381,"date":"2025-05-12T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2025-05-12T17:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:27:54","slug":"ai-islam-llms-and-data-harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/05\/12\/ai-islam-llms-and-data-harvesting\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, Islam, LLMs and Data Harvesting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This data harvesting already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mitsloanedtech.mit.edu\/ai\/basics\/addressing-ai-hallucinations-and-bias\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">raises red flags<\/a>\u00a0around misinformation, bias, harmful outputs, and the processing of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/italys-privacy-regulator-looks-into-online-data-gathering-train-ai-2023-11-22\/\">personal data<\/a>. But when that training data comes from platforms that already fail to moderate content, the result is even more harmful. These models don\u2019t just learn language \u2014they learn the power structures\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openai-sora-video-generator-bias\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">encoded<\/a>\u00a0in that language. They inherit the same biases, amplify the same exclusions, and reinforce the same asymmetries.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lovdnxxfwk22\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreia2oanqavbalb3unuid3q5botnzvchu37vyhkuf7yso5vmrqxs3ci\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">I was interested to see this (as more articles on AI and its impact in Islamic contexts emerge)<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3lovdnxxfwk22?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3lovdnxxfwk22?ref_src=embed\">11 May 2025 at 12:21<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article refers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-01\/24_Elswah_0.pdf\">Monica Elswah&#8217;s &#8220;Does AI Understand Arabic?&#8221;<\/a>, which is a very interesting article on aspects of LLMs and Arabic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I discuss some of these themes in <em>Islamic Algorithms<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This data harvesting already\u00a0raises red flags\u00a0around misinformation, bias, harmful outputs, and the processing of\u00a0personal data. But when that training data comes from platforms that already fail to moderate content, the result is even more harmful. These models don\u2019t just learn language \u2014they learn the power structures\u00a0encoded\u00a0in that language. They inherit the same biases, amplify the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,71,838,5],"tags":[308,842,89],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-artificial-intelligence","category-llms","category-research","tag-arabic","tag-llms","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8382,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions\/8382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}