1 code implementation • 1 Mar 2024 • Valentin Hofmann, Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, Dan Jurafsky, Sharese King
Here, we demonstrate that language models embody covert racism in the form of dialect prejudice: we extend research showing that Americans hold raciolinguistic stereotypes about speakers of African American English and find that language models have the same prejudice, exhibiting covert stereotypes that are more negative than any human stereotypes about African Americans ever experimentally recorded, although closest to the ones from before the civil rights movement.
