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Large language models (LLMs) are more likely to criminalise users that use African American English, the results of a new Cornell University study show.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

> Train AI on humans

> It acts like humans

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

Even worse, train AI on how humans act on the internet.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

The regular way of teaching LLMs new patterns of retrieving information, by giving human feedback, doesn’t help counter covert racial bias, the study showed.

Instead, it found that it could teach language models to "superficially conceal the racism they maintain on a deeper level".

Wow AI is speedrunning American conservatism, it took decades to figure out they gotta put a smoke machine in front of the racism

[–] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 4 points 2 years ago

Did they train it on Samuel L Jackson's character in Django or something?

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

Understandable, have a good... Wait, WTF?