• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    African Americans have a weak bias against writing in African American English -> Colleges have weak bias against accepting African Americans as graduate students -> Academic text have strong bias for text written by graduate students -> LLM training data has bias for academic texts -> LLMs have a strong bias for writing like training data.

    The error occurs upstream a bit, don’t point at the coders.