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LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I'd say this is exactly where the LLMs problems with it comes from. For most of us outside of the US and even a lot of people there, it's exactly that - a caricature of a lower class black person. However for many people it's a legit dialect of English they speak every day.