Xenophobic bias in Large Language Models (opens in new tab)

In this post Annick Backelandt argues that xenophobia should be understood as a distinct bias in Large Language Models, rather than being subsumed under racial bias. She shows how LLMs reproduce narratives of “foreignness” that particularly affect migrants and refugees, even without explicit racial references. Image by HelenSTB from Flickr By now, it is well known that Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from biases. One bias in particular that has commanded a lot of attention is racial bias,...