AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures

AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures - Overpasses For America

So, there’s the training data. Then, there’s the fine-tuning and evaluation. The training data might contain all kinds of really problematic stereotypes across countries, but then the bias mitigation techniques may only look at English. In particular, it tends to be North American– and US-centric. While you might reduce bias in some way for English users in the US, you’ve not done it throughout the world. You still risk amplifying really harmful…

AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures

Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.