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AI nostalgia holds caste bias

Published Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · Updated September 29

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  • Tests by MIT Technology Review found that GPT-5 chooses the stereotypical answer in 80 of 105 sentences, associating cleverness with upper caste and sewage cleaning with Dalit.

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  • The Hindu

    The article emphasizes that AI models, trained on archives reflecting privileged perspectives, reproduce and harden caste bias, calling for mandatory government regulation and transparency in AI training data to address this issue.

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