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First off, you need to get over it. Please repeat after me: "Data is biased. Data is always biased." Don't you feel better now?! In our messy, real day-to-day lives, data suffers from the "3 Nevers" of the knowledge problem. Knowledge, and therefore data, is: Never Complete, Never Static, and Never Centralized. (Click here to learn more about the 3 Nevers.) Now that you know this, it's time to discuss 1) how bias is presented in the GenAI world and 2) what we do about bias and the 3...