• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      2 months ago

      Writing in AAVE is silly, just like someone from the Deep South including southern drawl in their writing would be, or someone from Boston spelling “car keys” as “kha kees”

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      African Americans have a weak bias against writing in African American English -> Colleges have weak bias against accepting African Americans as graduate students

      Is a bit of a jump. Someone writing in AAVE probably wouldn’t get accepted to college, because written word is supposed to transcend dialects and follow a set of rules to be universally understandable.