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AI might be making women sound bad at work
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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2026
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Maybe it just means that women get treated with condescending answers more often especially in the Internet. That is my personal experience and not based on studies but there is a reason people want to defund gender studies and I do not like it.
Could be but the article is not talking about "more condescending" language but specifically about language that's less formal and at a lower grade level. I'm not sure if condescending answers are automatically also "dumbed down". I also think the way training text is gathered and fed into LLMs would separate different authors and context or we would see similar issues with all types of prompts. I can't definitely say it's not the reason but I think “language commonly used by women is more common in less formal texts” is a simpler and more convincing answer.
We do see these issues in a lot of ways because llms train on bias. More polite answers get more verbose and angry answers get less verbose. There are a lot of these "hacks" that exploit this.