A new report from Cornell University has highlighted that generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, are increasingly demonstrating covert racism as they advance. Researchers from Cornell's technology and linguistics departments have revealed that these large language models (LLMs) hold racist stereotypes about African American Vernacular English (AAVE), a dialect spoken by Black Americans. The researchers noted that companies commonly use platforms such as these to screen job applicants, and their study shows that AI models react to less overt markers of race, such as dialect differences.
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