Parrot is no longer a useful mental model. A parrot cannot make runs of logically consistent output, but new LLMs can.
They still lack intent/understanding. But a system does not need understanding for its output to consist of racially biased statements.
But let's also point out that GPT can also make very powerful anti racist statements. It can persuade people to be less biased against race. Reacting to the specific beliefs and points raised in the conversation. Generating sensible counter arguments.
In that way, GPT4 is better at refuting racist rhetoric than most people are.
So it's potential here is both good - its ability to help the fight against racism - and bad - its risk of generating racism.
That same thing applies to the employees at your company. And you should be talking to it like it's a real employee, with the power to critique and improve your process and designs.
It can simulate a decent project or product manager, a requirements analyst, a test planner, a junior implementer, debugger, automation engineer, etc
If you can't make your engineering pipeline nicer with those kinds of roles, I think you would either struggle to direct a team of those same people IRL, or you're just not being candid and effective enough with your prompting. Read papers on promoting ideas like reflection, critique, tool use, etc. Really treat it like a valuable team member, and it will boost your product requirements, write great tests right out the gate, and many other things you will WISH you could get your human colleagues to do! And all for a tiny fraction of the cost of human specialists!
They still lack intent/understanding. But a system does not need understanding for its output to consist of racially biased statements.
But let's also point out that GPT can also make very powerful anti racist statements. It can persuade people to be less biased against race. Reacting to the specific beliefs and points raised in the conversation. Generating sensible counter arguments.
In that way, GPT4 is better at refuting racist rhetoric than most people are.
So it's potential here is both good - its ability to help the fight against racism - and bad - its risk of generating racism.