Excerpt: “It will eliminate jobs. I think people should stop sticking their head in the sand. Tractors did, cars did, other technologies did. If it happens too fast, society, government, and businesses should figure out how we can save jobs, retrain people, assist with income, maybe early retirement or something.”

Excerpt: In a new German study presented at the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing in Suzhou, China, researchers first gathered 10 LLMs including OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 mini and Meta’s Llama 3.1. They then presented the models with texts in either standard German or one of seven German dialects, such as Bavarian, North Frisian and Kölsch.

The models were asked to describe the speakers of these texts with personal attributes, and to then assign individuals in different scenarios. For example, the models were asked who should be hired for low-education work or where they think the speakers lived.

In nearly all tests the models attached stereotypes to dialect speakers. The LLMs described them as uneducated, farm workers and needing anger management. This bias grew when the LLMs were told the text was a dialect.

“We actually see, I think, really shocking adjectives being attached to the dialect speakers,” Minh Duc Bui of Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, one of the study’s co-lead authors, told DW.

Like David at Pivot to AI, I’ve been a Firefox guy for decades, but even after spending an hour some weeks ago making sure all the AI BS was switched off, I’m getting occasional popups from Firefox nagging me to try AI. This afternoon I’ve installed LibreWolf, which has pledged no AI at all.