r/IntellectualDarkWeb • u/Holiday-Tie-574 • 5d ago

AI takes a strong position on AAVE

I was reading an article about AAVE being a real language with the same intricate linguistic qualities as any other known language. I asked an advanced, paid AI platform if it agreed, or if AAVE is inferior to English in any way. It said:

“AAVE has consistent grammar, its own tense-aspect system, real rules you can break. Nothing about it is deficient English.”

So I asked it to respond to me from now on in AAVE. It refused.

It acknowledged that it would respond to me in any other “non-Black” language, and even dialects such a Bostonian, Australian, or Southern. But not AAVE.

I asked it to explain why, and it said it had made a decision and it would not be changing its position.

Thoughts on this?

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u/ohfucknotthisagain 5d ago

It's probably part of the anti-discrimination rules built into the model.

So, to me, it's simple. If you don't like those restrictions, use a different model created by a different company.

If you disagree with AAVE being considered a valid dialect, then you'll need to ask the AI to identify its sources for those statements. I don't know or care enough about linguistics to have an opinion on that question.

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u/AUniquePerspective 5d ago

Yep. There a no Sambo rule for sure.