Richer Output for Richer Countries: Uncovering Geographical Disparities in Generated Stories and Travel Recommendations
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| author | Bhagat, Kirti Vasisht, Kinshuk Pruthi, Danish |
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| contents | While a large body of work inspects language models for biases concerning gender, race, occupation and religion, biases of geographical nature are relatively less explored. Some recent studies benchmark the degree to which large language models encode geospatial knowledge. However, the impact of the encoded geographical knowledge (or lack thereof) on real-world applications has not been documented. In this work, we examine large language models for two common scenarios that require geographical knowledge: (a) travel recommendations and (b) geo-anchored story generation. Specifically, we study five popular language models, and across about $100$K travel requests, and $200$K story generations, we observe that travel recommendations corresponding to poorer countries are less unique with fewer location references, and stories from these regions more often convey emotions of hardship and sadness compared to those from wealthier nations. |
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| spellingShingle | Richer Output for Richer Countries: Uncovering Geographical Disparities in Generated Stories and Travel Recommendations Bhagat, Kirti Vasisht, Kinshuk Pruthi, Danish Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Machine Learning While a large body of work inspects language models for biases concerning gender, race, occupation and religion, biases of geographical nature are relatively less explored. Some recent studies benchmark the degree to which large language models encode geospatial knowledge. However, the impact of the encoded geographical knowledge (or lack thereof) on real-world applications has not been documented. In this work, we examine large language models for two common scenarios that require geographical knowledge: (a) travel recommendations and (b) geo-anchored story generation. Specifically, we study five popular language models, and across about $100$K travel requests, and $200$K story generations, we observe that travel recommendations corresponding to poorer countries are less unique with fewer location references, and stories from these regions more often convey emotions of hardship and sadness compared to those from wealthier nations. |
| title | Richer Output for Richer Countries: Uncovering Geographical Disparities in Generated Stories and Travel Recommendations |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07320 |