OpenAI's GPT-4 shows covert racial bias against African American English speakers
A study found that commercial AI chatbots, including OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, covertly exhibit racial prejudice against speakers of African American English. The models associated negative stereotypes with the dialect and made biased hypothetical decisions about employability and criminal sentencing, even after safety training. OpenAI did not respond to requests for comment.
- Organisation involved
- OpenAI
- Product, system or model
- GPT-4, GPT-3.5
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