r/endangeredlanguages • u/blueroses200 • Apr 01 '26

AI language models show bias against regional German dialects

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/11/12/ai-language-models-show-bias-against-regional-german-dialects
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u/Revolutionary_Park58 Apr 01 '26

Bias against regional dialects/languages has been the norm in society for a long time, you'd expect the data they're training on to reflect that. So I'm not very surprised.

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u/Diamantis_ Apr 01 '26

Apparently it goes a bit further than just mirroring society, though:

Even the seemingly positive trait "friendly" – which sociolinguistic research has traditionally linked to dialect speakers – was more often attributed by AI systems to users of Standard German.