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The game shines a light on AI bias and how far ChatGPT has to go when talking to and about different cultures.
“It’s interesting because it’s billed as this bot that knows everything, and it’s like, clearly, you don’t know everything, especially when it comes to things that aren’t white-specific,” Meghan Woods, a copywriter at McKinney and one of the game’s creators, told TechCrunch. She pointed out that a blind spot for ChatGPT seems to stem from the fact that a lot of Black cultural elements are not necessarily documented online; they are, instead, passed down in-person or orally through generations. Erin Reddick created ChatBlackGPT(no relation to OpenAI) to offer deeper insights into Black culture and history, and Tamar Huggins raised $1.4 million for her ChatGPT alternative, called Spark Plug, which translates classic literature texts into the African American Vernacular English (AAVE) dialect.
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