A perspective on gender bias in generated text data
Text generation by artificial intelligence became available to a broader public, latterly. This technology is based on machine learning and language models that need to be trained with input data. Many studies have focused on the distinction of human-written text. vs. generated texts but recent stud...
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| description | Text generation by artificial intelligence became available to a broader public, latterly. This technology is based on machine learning and language models that need to be trained with input data. Many studies have focused on the distinction of human-written text. vs. generated texts but recent studies show that the underlying language models might be prone to reproduce gender bias in their output and, consequently, reinforcing gender roles and imbalances. In this paper, we give a perspective on this topic, considering both the generated text data itself and the machine learning models used for language generation. We present a case study of gender bias in generated text data and review recent literature addressing language models. Our results indicate that researching gender bias in the context of text generation faces significant challenges and that future work needs to overcome a lack of definitions as well as a lack of transparency. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c334f400f94a487ea8f82702aa3dcd242025-08-20T02:00:06ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Dynamics2673-27262024-12-01610.3389/fhumd.2024.14952701495270A perspective on gender bias in generated text dataThomas HupperichText generation by artificial intelligence became available to a broader public, latterly. This technology is based on machine learning and language models that need to be trained with input data. Many studies have focused on the distinction of human-written text. vs. generated texts but recent studies show that the underlying language models might be prone to reproduce gender bias in their output and, consequently, reinforcing gender roles and imbalances. In this paper, we give a perspective on this topic, considering both the generated text data itself and the machine learning models used for language generation. We present a case study of gender bias in generated text data and review recent literature addressing language models. Our results indicate that researching gender bias in the context of text generation faces significant challenges and that future work needs to overcome a lack of definitions as well as a lack of transparency.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2024.1495270/fullgender biasgenerative artificial intelligencetext generationlanguage modelsmachine learning |
| spellingShingle | Thomas Hupperich A perspective on gender bias in generated text data Frontiers in Human Dynamics gender bias generative artificial intelligence text generation language models machine learning |
| title | A perspective on gender bias in generated text data |
| title_full | A perspective on gender bias in generated text data |
| title_fullStr | A perspective on gender bias in generated text data |
| title_full_unstemmed | A perspective on gender bias in generated text data |
| title_short | A perspective on gender bias in generated text data |
| title_sort | perspective on gender bias in generated text data |
| topic | gender bias generative artificial intelligence text generation language models machine learning |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2024.1495270/full |
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