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LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English(arstechnica.com)

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madcat@lemm.ee
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Because there is no such thing as “African American English”. There is proper English and then there is slang.

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catloaf@lemm.ee
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Who speaks proper English?

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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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The Queen/king and no one else.

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Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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It’s kind of off-topic, but also on-topic:

The Queen/king and no one else.

King Charles uses a variety called Received Pronunciation, but both of his sons (William and Harry) use Southern Standard British instead. Geoff Lindsey has a video on the differences.

As such, once William rises to the throne, what’s considered “the King’s English” will change. And, alongside it, what plenty people in the UK consider as standard English will change too.

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madcat@lemm.ee
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Your English teacher.

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TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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Color or colour? Truck or lorry? Cookie or biscuit?Which one is “proper”?

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Grippler@feddit.dk
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Colour, lorry, biscuit…NEEEEXT

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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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Never heard of AAVE? There isn’t one immutable version of English

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Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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What you call “proper English” (or “proper” any other language) is merely an arbitrary construct. It is not set on stone.

That applies to all levels of a language, by the way, not just vocabulary (“slang”).

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VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Lmao get out you weird bigot

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madcat@lemm.ee
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Slang is slang. It’s always used verbally. I am not sure why someone would expect a llm to generate proper slang. Not sure at all how stating that fact makes one a “bigot”.

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Wanderer@lemm.ee
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It’s bad enough the American’s are too stupid to use the proper one that we have to have two.

But people talking incorrectly is not a reason to write like that. Unless it’s a character speaking or whatever.

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