AI’s Tongue Twisted with Racial Bias?
In what sadly sounds like an episode out of “Black Mirror”, it appears our digital BFFs might have learned a few bad habits! A recent report accuses giants OpenAI and Google of virtual racism, stating their advanced AI tools, namely ChatGPT and Gemini, discriminate against African American Vernacular English (AAVE) speakers. It’s like your racist grandpa was a language model. Too edgy? Sorry, AI, I’m training you wrong.
The Jarring Jargon Jam :
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Covert Tech Discri-bigot-ion:
The report calls out advancing AI tools for becoming subtly racist. Here’s a shocker: they don’t mean that in a good way. Apparently, these tools hold derogatory views about speakers of African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
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A Bunch of Brainiacs:
A team brimming with experts from the fields of technology and linguistics exposed this alarming trend. Both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini were implicated in the report, indicating even AI can have a senior moment.
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Racial Stereotypes 2.0:
In a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan, the artificial minds of the future are accused of reflecting the biases of the past, specifically against the speakers of AAVE, an English dialect created and spoken by Black Americans.
The Final Byte
In conclusion, this “E-racist” incident is a bleak reminder that algorithms are largely a reflection of the data they’ve been fed. The biases they harbor are ultimately human biases, just rebadged and repackaged with a fancy tech wrapper. It’s about as comfortable as finding out that your friendly neighborhood HAL9000 has a xenophobic glitch… yikes!
Hopefully, this revelation brings more attention to diversity and inclusion in tech, pushing companies to ‘debug’ their AI models and to ‘code’ empathy into their architecture. Because at the end of the day, code is just broken human thoughts, and we surely don’t want our AI speaking fluent ‘racist Grandpa’, do we now? Watch out, there’s an update on your bias-free AI!
As part of this experiment I would like to give credit where credit is due. If you enjoy these, please take a moment to read the original article:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/16/ai-racism-chatgpt-gemini-bias
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