# Decentralization and transparency are needed to understand model bias

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-15
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Key Challenges in Building Decentralized AI Infrastructure \| AI / ALL Summit (Sahara AI)
- **Watch at:** 00:18:02 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6pynSNjmw&t=1082s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-10-15-decentralization-and-transparency-are-needed-to-un-myvv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralization and transparency are needed to understand model bias," Key Challenges in Building Decentralized AI Infrastructure \| AI / ALL Summit (Sahara AI), 15 Oct 2024, 00:18:02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6pynSNjmw&t=1082s

## Quote — verbatim

> Models' biases are as good as the data it gets fed and the data it gets reinforced... it was heavily biased because it was reinforced by people in San Francisco... I think one of the reasons why decentralization needs to exist, more importantly transparency, is to understand these biases.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Bias/explainability question; he cites Microsoft's Tay turning racist, GPT-3's RLHF lean, and Google Gemini's ahistorical founding-fathers images. Quote spans caption blocks.