How Biased is GPT-3?

Despite its impressive performance, the world’s newest language model reflects societal biases in gender, race, and religion

Catherine Yeo
Fair Bytes
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4 min readJun 3, 2020

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Last week, OpenAI researchers announced the arrival of GPT-3, a language model that blew away its predecessor GPT-2. GPT-2 was already widely known as the best, state-of-the-art language model; in contrast, GPT-3 uses 175 billion parameters, more than 100x more than GPT-2, which used 1.5 billion parameters.

GPT-3 achieved impressive results: OpenAI

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Catherine Yeo
Fair Bytes

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