> Amazon's hiring algorithm penalized resumes that contained the word "women" in any context. Healthcare risk scoring algorithms used by major US hospitals were found to systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients. Apple Card's credit algorithm gave wives credit lines 10x lower than their husbands for the same financial profile.
There's definitely a good, well researched article to be written about the how well the stochastic parrots paper stands up five years later. This is not that article.
The Amazon hiring story is from 2018: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/insight-amazon-scraps-...
The "systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients" story seems to be this one from 2019: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/tolan/research/2019/di...
The Apple Card story is also from 2019: https://abcnews.com/US/york-probing-apple-card-alleged-gende...
None of those stories were about LLMs!
The stochastic parrots paper was published in 2021: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
There's definitely a good, well researched article to be written about the how well the stochastic parrots paper stands up five years later. This is not that article.