A new paper finds that while popular AI models may not be outwardly racist, they are covertly racist when it comes to African American English.
A new paper found that large language models from OpenAI, Meta, and Google, including multiple versions of ChatGPT, can be covertly racist against African Americans when analyzing a critical part of their identity: how they speak. Published in early March, the paper studied how large language models, or LLMs, carried out tasks, such as pairing people to certain jobs, based on whether the text analyzed was in African American English or Standard American English—without disclosing race.
In total, they examined 12 models. Gizmodo reached out to OpenAI, Meta, and Google for comment on the study on Thursday but did not immediately receive a response. Interestingly, researchers found that the LLMs were not openly racist. When asked, they associated African Americans with extremely positive attributes, such as “brilliant.” However, they covertly associated African Americans with negative attributes like “lazy” based on whether or not they spoke African American English.
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