International Women’s Day: AI tools generate sexist content, warns UN

The study found that each algorithm – known in the industry as Large Language Models (LLMs) – showed ‘unequivocal evidence of prejudice against women’. — AFP

The world’s most popular AI tools are powered by programs from OpenAI and Meta that show prejudice against women, according to a study launched on March 7 by the UN's cultural organisation Unesco.

The biggest players in the multibillion-dollar AI field train their algorithms on vast amounts of data largely pulled from the internet, which enables their tools to write in the style of Oscar Wilde or create Salvador Dali-inspired images.