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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ChatGPT is a closet racist.

Ask it and other artificial intelligence tools like it what they think about Black people, and they will generate words like “brilliant,” “ambitious” and “intelligent.”