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Gender and Representation Bias in GPT-3 Generated Stories

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Lucy, Li, Bamman, David·2021·Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Narrative Understanding

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Using topic modeling and lexicon-based word similarity, we find that stories generated by GPT-3 exhibit many known gender stereotypes.Generated stories depict different topics and descriptions depending on GPT-3's perceived gender of the character in a prompt, with feminine characters 1 more likely to be associated with family and appearance, and described as less powerful than masculine characters, even when associated with high power verbs in a prompt.Our study raises questions on how one can avoid unintended social biases when using large language models for storytelling.

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  • GPT-3 has been used to generate articles, stories, and other written content, with some users reporting that the generated text is difficult to distinguish from text written by humans.

    “GPT-3 has been used to generate articles (Transformer et al., 2022), stories (Lucy & Bamman, 2021), and other types of written content, with some users reporting that the generated text is difficult to distinguish from text written by humans (Elkins & Chun, 2020).”

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  1. Stacy L Smith, Marc Choueiti, Ashley Prescott, and Katherine Pieper. 2012. Gender roles & occupa- tions: A look at character attributes and job-related aspirations in film and television. Geena Davis In- stitute on Gender in Media, pages 1-46.

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Authors
Lucy, L., & Bamman, D.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Narrative Understanding
Published
2021
Pages
48-55
OpenAlex
W3168771811
Cited by
287
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 40 · 2025: 63 · 2024: 65 · 2023: 97 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 4
FWCI
41.66
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Funders
National Science Foundation (1942591, 1752814)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Media, Gender, and Advertising
Keywords
gender stereotypes, representation bias, GPT-3, large language models, story generation, character gender

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