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LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More and more people are using speech to text. And it does show how differently people speak than write (apparently I never say my be in because, for example).

But it also means that llms aren't only being fed text, but also speech converted into text.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

For me it's like "holy fuck... do I eat so fucking many vowels???" It reaches a point that I eventually gave up using text-to-speech with Portuguese in my cell phone, I go straight for Italian because at least then it gets me right.

But it also means that llms aren’t only being fed text, but also speech converted into text.

That might be part of the issue causing the bias shown in the article.