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Insidious by Design: Implications of Large Language Model algorithmic bias for the Global South

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arXiv:2606. 28333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: \begin{quote} The biases in Large Language Models' (LLMs) outputs remain inadequately theorised, particularly from the perspective of the Global South.

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