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Etienne / Tek
Etienne / Tek
@tek@todon.eu  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

TIL that Kenyan workers have been used so much to train AI systems, that standard writing by Kenyan people is often flagged as AI generated while it is not (which means that they can get discriminated for jobs / exams etc)
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

Edit: many people raised below that the article is talking about texts written in very classically trained English detected as AI generated, which is the case for many Kenyans. It is documented that many Kenyan workers have been hired to train LLMs, but I made an assumption that it was the reason for this detection while it may not be. Sorry about that, thanks for the feedback (and feel free to continue the discussion here)

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer
Stéphane Bortzmeyer
@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@tek This is not what this interesting article says. It says that AI detectors misclassify texts written by Kenyans but not because they were used to train AI but because Kenyans were taught english at school in a certain way, which looks "robotic" to US readers.

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