The algorithms that detect hate speech online are biased against black people

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But two new studies show that AI trained to identify hate speech may actually end up amplifying racial bias. In one study, researchers found that leading AI models for processing hate speech were one-and-a-half times more likely to flag tweets as offensive or hateful when they were written by African Americans, and 2.2 times more likely to flag tweets written in African American English (which is commonly spoken by black people in the US). Another study found similar widespread evidence of racial bias against black speech in five widely used academic data sets for studying hate speech that totaled around 155,800 Twitter posts.

This is in large part because what is considered offensive depends on social context. Terms that are slurs when used in some settings — like the “n-word” or “queer” — may not be in others. But algorithms — and content moderators who grade the test data that teaches these algorithms how to do their job — don’t usually know the context of the comments they’re reviewing.



https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/1...-bias-black-african-american-facebook-twitter






African American English is Racist

African American English (AAE), a language variety that has also been identified at different times in dialectology and literary studies as Black English, black dialect, and Negro (nonstandard) English. Since the late 1980s, the term has been used ambiguously, sometimes with reference to only Ebonics, or, as it is known to linguists, African American VernacularEnglish (AAVE; the English dialect spoken by many African Americans in the United States), and sometimes with reference to both Ebonics and Gullah, the English creole spoken by African Americans in coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia and on the offshore Sea Islands.

 

[Hijinx]

Speech online biased against black people. Well: there is another thing to keep me awake nights.
According to the latest from the liberals Everything is biased against black people ---and lets not forget Brown people.
Democrats are eating this crap up with their steady pandering .2020 should be called the year of the pander.

African-American English. LMAO I guess Ebonics didn't sound cool enough.
Negro (non-standard) English. There is another good one. LOL

 

[Smokey1]

This brings up a question I have had. Why is it that many blacks are the only demographic that doesn't speak standard English in this country. Most people who come here from other cultures and languages speak standard English without accent after one generation or so. Blacks have been here for over 400 years and many still speak a variation of English. Even blacks in other countries like the UK speak the standard language there. Why is it different here?

 

[vraiblonde]

Why is it different here?

Because racist white liberals don't expect black people to use proper English, and invented a term for it - Ebonics - to keep their pets ignorant and unemployable. Just like on the plantation when massa would punish the slaves for "acting white".