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AI image generators often give racist and sexist results: can they be fixed?

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AI image generators often give racist and sexist results: can they be fixed?

Illustration by Ada Zielińska In 2022, Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, a graduate student in artificial intelligence (AI) at Stanford University in California, found something alarming in image-generating AI programs. When she prompted a popular tool for ‘a photo of an American man and his house’, it generated an image of a pale-skinned person in front of … Read more

Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect

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Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect

Some models are more likely to associate African American English with negative traits than Standard American English.Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Large language models (LLMs), including those that power chatbots such as ChatGPT, make racist judgements on the on basis of users’ dialect, a preprint study has found1. Researchers found that some artificial intelligence (AI) … Read more