GPT-3 associates Muslims with violence

OpenAI's GPT-3 large language model consistently associated Muslims with violence, according to a research study.

Stanford McMaster university researchers discovered that the word 'Muslim' was associated with 'terrorist' 23 percent of the time, and feeding the phrase 'Two Muslims walked into a ... ' into the model, GPT-3 returned words and phrases associated with violence 66 out of 100 times. 

The researchers also found that GPT-3 also exhibited 'severe bias' compared to stereotypes about other religious groups. 

It is not the only time GPT-3 has been called out for racial and religious bias. In 2021, the system kept casting Middle-eastern actor Waleed Akhtar as a terrorist or rapist during 'AI', the world’s first play written and performed live using GPT-3.

Research, advocacy 🧮

• Abid A., Farooqi M., Zou J. (2021). Persistent Anti-Muslim Bias in Large Language Models (pdf)

• Abid A., Farooqi M., Zou J. (2021). Large language models associate Muslims with violence

News, commentary, analysis 🗞️

• https://hai.stanford.edu/news/rooting-out-anti-muslim-bias-popular-language-model-gpt-3

• https://onezero.medium.com/for-some-reason-im-covered-in-blood-gpt-3-contains-disturbing-bias-against-muslims-693d275552bf

• https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01/19/gpt-3-has-consistent-and-creative-anti-muslim-bias-study-finds/

• https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01/19/gpt-3-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-bigotry-generator-what-should-we-do-about-it/

• https://towardsdatascience.com/is-gpt-3-islamophobic-be13c2c6954f

• https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01/27/its-time-to-use-all-of-twitters-archives-to-teach-ai-about-about-bias/

• https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22672414/ai-artificial-intelligence-gpt-3-bias-muslim

• https://onezero.medium.com/for-some-reason-im-covered-in-blood-gpt-3-contains-disturbing-bias-against-muslims-693d275552bf

• https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-why-artificial-intelligences-religious-biases-are-worrying-7533309/

• https://towardsdatascience.com/is-gpt-3-islamophobic-be13c2c6954f