Despite advancements in AI, new research reveals that large language models continue to perpetuate harmful racial biases, particularly against speakers of African American English.
  • stembolts@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    “Wow Johnson, no matter how much biased data we feed this thing it just keeps repeating biases from human society.”

    Sample input from a systematically racist society (the entire world), get systematically racist output.

    No shit. Fix society or “tune” your model, whatever that entails…

    Obviously only one of these is feasible from a developer perspective.

    • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOP
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      4 months ago

      While it may be obvious to you, most people don’t have the data literacy to understand this, let alone use this information to decide where it can/should be implemented and how to counteract the baked in bias. Unfortunately, as is mentioned in the article, people believe the problem is going away when it is not.