BlackEco to [email protected]English • 21 days agoLLMs have a strong bias against use of African American Englisharstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down137cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-7•21 days agoBecause there is no such thing as “African American English”. There is proper English and then there is slang.
minus-squareTimeSquirrellinkfedilink11•21 days agoColor or colour? Truck or lorry? Cookie or biscuit?Which one is “proper”?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•21 days agoNever heard of AAVE? There isn’t one immutable version of English
minus-squareLvxferrelinkfedilinkEnglish10•21 days agoWhat you call “proper English” (or “proper” any other language) is merely an arbitrary construct. It is not set on stone. That applies to all levels of a language, by the way, not just vocabulary (“slang”).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•16 days agoSlang is slang. It’s always used verbally. I am not sure why someone would expect a llm to generate proper slang. Not sure at all how stating that fact makes one a “bigot”.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•20 days agoIt’s bad enough the American’s are too stupid to use the proper one that we have to have two. But people talking incorrectly is not a reason to write like that. Unless it’s a character speaking or whatever.
Because there is no such thing as “African American English”. There is proper English and then there is slang.
Color or colour? Truck or lorry? Cookie or biscuit?Which one is “proper”?
Colour, lorry, biscuit…NEEEEXT
Never heard of AAVE? There isn’t one immutable version of English
What you call “proper English” (or “proper” any other language) is merely an arbitrary construct. It is not set on stone.
That applies to all levels of a language, by the way, not just vocabulary (“slang”).
Lmao get out you weird bigot
Slang is slang. It’s always used verbally. I am not sure why someone would expect a llm to generate proper slang. Not sure at all how stating that fact makes one a “bigot”.
It’s bad enough the American’s are too stupid to use the proper one that we have to have two.
But people talking incorrectly is not a reason to write like that. Unless it’s a character speaking or whatever.