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ArcticDagger@feddit.dk to Science@mander.xyz · 1 year ago

LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

www.nature.com

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LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

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ArcticDagger@feddit.dk to Science@mander.xyz · 1 year ago
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Large language models exhibit racial prejudices on the basis of dialect.
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    Would you like the opportunity to explain why African American English is “shit” and comparable to racism?

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      i meant shit as in racist internet writings, which the llms are taught with

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        Ohh sorry. Like the model was trained on bad inputs

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          homie-what-set-you-from <- the input

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      No, the ‘shit’ is the prejudice in the training data that claims negative stereotypes about people who speak in African American English.

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      People be downvoting things or no reason 😑

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