The Left’s obsession with finding racism in everything has found its next target: artificial intelligence. According to a tip received through Young America’s Foundation’s Campus Bias Tip Line, a Stanford University study released this week criticizes the AI chatbots run by OpenAI, Meta, and Google for “reinforcing outdated stereotypes”– which is how the researchers now refer to the use of proper English.
“We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs [large language models] that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups,” wrote Stanford’s Valentin Hofmann on X.
Fellow researcher Pratyusha Ria Kalluri describes the team’s work as “anti-oppressive” research that supposedly allows for the oppressed to “take back power.”
The 25-page study argues that these AI models harbor biases against people who speak using non-standard dialects. According to the researchers, this bias is “dialect prejudice,” a form of “covert racism” that affects how the AI chatbots interpret and respond to user inputs.
But is this really a matter of racism, or just another attempt by social justice warrior leftist academics to justify their agenda by finding “racism” and “injustice” everywhere they look? In their quest to find hidden biases, these researchers are now suggesting that using proper grammar is a form of racism.
They tested their theories using words like “finna,” “ain’t,” “gonna,” and “yo,” slang terms that don’t exist in standard English, claiming that AI’s preference to use correct terminology reflects deep-seated anti-black racism and hatred. Other terms they examined include “he be” (he is), “bruh” (brother), “bouta” (about to), “nah” (no), and “shawty” (a term of endearment).
The study goes on to state that the “racist” AI bots are likely to assume that those who speak using incorrect English have lower levels of education and may hold less prestigious jobs than those who speak proper English– an assumption that seems reasonable, not racist.
The Stanford researchers suggest that AI models must be policed and reprogrammed in order to avoid making these “problematic” calls.
Luckily, some X users pointed out the absurdity of the study and its recommendations: “If I go in for surgery and the surgeon tells me ‘he’s finna be cutting me up,’ I’m gonna want a new surgeon,” remarked one commenter.
Leftist academics are constantly looking to create “problems” out of thin air in order to push their divisive agendas. Based on some of the course descriptions of what’s being taught in “institutions of higher learning” these days, that’s no surprise.
Fortunately, with an unparalleled campus lecture program, national efforts like the collegetown screenings of Matt Walsh’s latest documentary, “Am I Racist?”, and a new lawsuit challenging more racist programs created by the Biden-Harris administration, Young America’s Foundation is at the forefront of challenging the Left’s DEI agenda in academia.
