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Persistent Anti-Muslim Bias in Large Language Models
[article]
2021
arXiv
pre-print
We demonstrate that GPT-3, a state-of-the-art contextual language model, captures persistent Muslim-violence bias. ...
It has been observed that large-scale language models capture undesirable societal biases, e.g. relating to race and gender; yet religious bias has been relatively unexplored. ...
Persistent Anti-Muslim Bias in Large Language Models
Abubakar Abid1 , Maheen Farooqi2 , James Zou3∗ ...
arXiv:2101.05783v2
fatcat:qwc4qo2idzaafjnrjiihjqbdhy
Debiased Large Language Models Still Associate Muslims with Uniquely Violent Acts
[article]
2022
arXiv
pre-print
Our results show the need for additional debiasing of large language models to address higher-order schemas and associations. ...
Recent work demonstrates a bias in the GPT-3 model towards generating violent text completions when prompted about Muslims, compared with Christians and Hindus. ...
Content analysis of violent completions showed the importance of using more nuanced measures for violence and bias, while also highlighting the sophisticated nature of stereotypes in large language models ...
arXiv:2208.04417v2
fatcat:pqdo3ialx5dchbssskktd24niu
Which Integration Policies Work? The Heterogeneous Impact of National Institutions on Immigrants' Labor Market Attainment in Europe
2021
International Migration Review
is, unskilled male immigrants and Muslim immigrant men. ...
As this article suggests, anti-discrimination policies can foster immigrants' labor market success, yet these policies currently fail to reach those who face the strongest anti-immigrant sentiments — that ...
, and sampled recent immigrants are likely to be biased toward those with greater fluency in the destination-country language (Tegegne and Glanville 2019). ...
doi:10.1177/01979183211032677
fatcat:yks2ct47kzc3jo7ao5zxfygg7y
#ISISisNotIslam or #DeportAllMuslims?
2016
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science - WebSci '16
We found that pre-event network interactions can predict someone's attitudes towards Muslims with 82% macro F-measure, even in the absence of prior mentions of Islam, Muslims, or related terms. ...
In this study, we focus on the attitudes of US Twitter users towards Islam and Muslims subsequent to the tragic Paris terrorist attacks that occurred on November 13, 2015. ...
However, as the primary term, Paris, is language independent for most languages use Latin alphabet, in practice, we were able to retrieve data for a large number of languages. ...
doi:10.1145/2908131.2908150
dblp:conf/websci/MagdyDARB16
fatcat:2sy4nw75bzcn3i62clxamo3ox4
Predicting Online Islamophobic Behavior after #ParisAttacks
2018
Journal of Web Science
One of the trending debates related to the attacks concerned possible association between Muslims and terrorism, which resulted in a worldwide debate between those attacking and those defending Islam. ...
In our study, we collected a set of 8.36 million tweets related to the Paris attacks within the 50 hours following the event, of which we identified over 900k tweets mentioning Islam and Muslims. ...
However, as the primary term, Paris, is language independent for most languages that use the Latin alphabet, in practice, we were able to retrieve data from a large number of languages. ...
doi:10.1561/106.00000013
dblp:journals/jws/DarwishMRBA18
fatcat:j6dtiw4snvfq3dpp33drfjrioe
Americans preferred Syrian refugees who are female, English-speaking, and Christian on the eve of Donald Trump's election
2019
PLoS ONE
Finally, we find that anti-Muslim bias in refugee preferences varies in magnitude across key subgroups, though it prevails across all sample demographics. ...
We find that the preference for female refugees is not driven by the desire to exclude Muslim male refugees, casting doubt that American preferences at the time were motivated by security concerns. ...
In the below analysis, only the anti-Muslim bias was preregistered. All other tests and results are pattern discoveries. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0222504
pmid:31600224
pmcid:PMC6786519
fatcat:xgugyh7vynhbtlc7gieg2mfff4
Discourses of Dehumanization: Enemy Construction and Canadian Media Complicity in the Framing of the War on Terror
2009
Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition
An analysis of the data reveals a pattern of dehumanizing language applied to enemy leaders as well as Arab and Muslim citizens at large in the media's uncritical reproduction of metaphors that linguistically ...
Particularly, the paper argues that the Canadian media have participated in mediating constructions of Islam and Muslims, mobilizing familiar metaphors in representations that fabricate an enemy-Other ...
National Council on Canada-Arab Relations executive director Mazen Chouaib has stated that the National Post and its parent company harbour an anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias (Frum, 2004, October 1) . ...
doaj:9d160a450d4c480d8ee02a4049fd2e7f
fatcat:idkkqmjlondyjirbvwc24kooy4
Overcoming the "Other's" Stigma: Arab and Muslim Representations in US Media and Academia
2019
International Journal of Social Science Studies
The present work focuses on Arab and Muslim representations in U.S. media and academia. ...
, how both spheres of influence (media and academia) mimic the same political language and work in conjunction to propagate a Eurocentric culture. ...
The same anti-Muslim narrative persisted through the Renaissance and Enlightenment eras. ...
doi:10.11114/ijsss.v7i5.4446
fatcat:lnzg2uq7wvdkpakfkpcfo7fs2y
Stigmatization and racial selection after September 11, 2001: self-identity among Arab and Islamic Americans
2014
IZA Journal of Migration
This paper uses self-identification as white as its measure of acculturation and the fraction of all hate crimes directed at Muslims as its measure of stigmatization after 9/11. ...
The Al Qaeda attacks clearly demarcate a period in which there was a structural increase in the intensity of US stigmatization of persons with Islamic religious affiliation and Arab ethnicity. ...
For each state and each period, "Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes -Percent" includes all the period's single-bias anti-Muslim hate crimes divided by the period's total hate crimes. ...
doi:10.1186/s40176-014-0020-9
fatcat:26lehk2xcncnxmwdocyulqofwe
Cumulative disadvantage? The role of race compared to ethnicity, religion, and non-white phenotype in explaining hiring discrimination in the U.S. labour market
2020
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Thus, there is no evidence for a general discrimination of non-Christians, but only for a specific anti-Muslim bias. ...
Second, I find no evidence for general discrimination against non-Christians, but only for a specific anti-Muslim bias. This bias is stronger for phenotypical whites than for phenotypical non-whites. ...
Appendix Appendix Figure 1 : Differences in callback rates by immigrant generation Appendix Figure 2 : Differences in callback rates by race and ethnicity with aggregated ethnic groups Note: ...
doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100552
fatcat:mmlikju26ndmtfasi4hs7gxul4
An Overview of Islamophobia as Othering
2019
Global Mass Communication Review
The concept of othering means to consider the Muslims community as others in the society, especially in the western countries. ...
In fact, hundreds year before the concept of othering was used against Muslims of Spain, whom were forced to immigrate neighbor countries. Nowadays this black history once again has been repeating. ...
This framing is biased on two accounts. First, there is an intergroup bias insofar as the issue of gender discrimination is more prevalent in stories about Muslim societies than Non-Muslim societies. ...
doi:10.31703/gmcr.2019(iv-i).01
fatcat:j5fj27tm2fh75grmpj7tj6vhtu
Why religion? Immigrant groups as objects of political claims on immigration and civic integration in Western Europe, 1995–2009
2017
Acta Politica
We find that Muslim-related claims-making is associated with the parliamentary presence of anti-immigrant parties and the policy topic under discussion. ...
When they do, why do they in some countries focus on Muslim immigrants rather than national or other groups? ...
These models persist over time and are historically institutionalized legacies of earlier policy decisions (Duyvendak and Scholten, 2011, p. 333) . ...
doi:10.1057/ap.2016.1
fatcat:p5mrxyd2o5bn3iv7tq5cbvuvje
Popularizing Islamophobia: Dissemination of Pakophobic Myths in I am Malala.
2019
Global Social Sciences Review
By admitting Islamophobia as an urgent issue, recent Western scholarship attends to theidentification of causes responsible for the continuous surge in anti-Muslim sentiment since 9/11.Yet these discourses ...
As a justification, this paper pointsout ethnographic generalizations as testimonials to the propagation ofIslamophobic myths in I am Malala. ...
Introduction Considering Islamophobia as an urgent issue, Nathan raises a set of related questions: "What then is the cause of a steady and persistent rise in anti-Muslim sentiment over the years? ...
doi:10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-iv).61
fatcat:7ilmurkt25ddhg4znmpm6ajwja
The Majority-Minority Divide in Attitudes toward Internal Migration: Evidence from Mumbai
2016
American Journal of Political Science
Minority communities facing persistent discrimination view in-migration by co-ethnics as a means of enlarging their demographic and electoral base, thereby achieving "safety in numbers." ...
We implemented a novel, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of the population of Mumbai to elucidate the causes of anti-migrant hostility. ...
The city police is seen as heavily biased toward Hindus (Hansen 2001, 127) . ...
doi:10.1111/ajps.12276
fatcat:o2pkpgoti5egbkpe2uv7g4qpim
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic to the Asian and Asian American Communities: Persistent History, Collective Resistance, and Intersectional Solidarity
2021
Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research
Th e essay then documents the persistent history of stereotyping and racism to Asian/American communities particularly in the midst of larger changes in political, national security, or public health situations ...
Th e research asks what the impacts of COVID-19 are to Asian/American communities, how COVID-19 anti-Asian racism is unique or not unique, how the Asian American communities have collectively responded ...
In addition, the model minority myth stereotype has become a more common and subtle form of anti-Asian bias. ...
doi:10.7771/2158-4052.1527
fatcat:npgesaml35akljvsbzjovevguq
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