Is GPT-3 Islamophobic?. How OpenAI’s Western algorithm

By Medium - 2021-02-03

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The scope of this article is to investigate the intersection of Orientalism, as developed by Edward Said, and technology, in the context of OpenAI’s GPT-3 algorithm, which generates coherent text…

Summary

  • Is GPT-3 Islamophobic?
  • The scope of this article is to investigate the intersection of Orientalism, as developed by Edward Said, and technology, in the context of OpenAI’s GPT-3 algorithm, which generates coherent text from minimal prompts.
  • Digital Orientalism and the algorithmic gaze In 1978 Edward Said published one of the most relevant books of the 20th century, Orientalism.
  • 2020, p.38 GPT-3’s association between negative words such as “terrorism” and Islam illustrates the hegemonic power of the digital Orientalist discourse in the way in which it reproduces and reinforces biased knowledge of Muslims.

 

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  1. NLP (0.33)
  2. Machine_Learning (0.1)
  3. Backend (0.07)

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