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ChatGPT and Gemini discriminate against those who speak African American Vernacular English, report shows

For years, leading AI experts like Timnit Gebru, former co-leader of Google’s ethical artificial intelligence team, have called for the federal government to curtail the mostly unregulated use of large language models. “It doesn’t eliminate the underlying problem; the guardrails seem to emulate what educated people in the United States do,” said Avijit Ghosh, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, whose work focuses on the intersection of public policy and technology. Meanwhile, federal labor regulators like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission only recently began shielding workers from AI-based discrimination, with the first case of its kind coming before the EEOC late last year.

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