AI generates harsher punishments for people who use Black dialect
Efforts to scrub overt discrimination during training may not reduce covert racism
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Artificial intelligence models praise Black people but insult people of unspecified race who use African American English dialect, a new study shows. Such models, in other words, are covertly, rather than overtly, racist.
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