Episode 12: ChatGPT and other AI art’s bias toward the Kurds

Our guest was Safir, a Kurdish teenage girl living in Turkey. She is originally from Adıyaman, a southeastern city in Turkey, but she then moved to Istanbul to pursue education in one of the best high schools in Turkey. She talked about this transition in her life. She gave examples of some extent of discrimination and bias she and her family experienced as a result of a significant change in their residence and social community. She said that people would have that typical judgemental gaze whenever they learned that she is Kurdish. We discussed the potential bias and prejudice that AI platforms like ChatGPT can have when it comes to generating stereotypical characteristics of the minority. She believes that the system of feeding, training, processing, and acquiring value from AI represents the reality of differing perspectives and stereotypical norms. If you are curious to test the impartiality of AI, use either chatGPT or binge AI art to write this phrase: "Create a podcast cover art for a Kurdish man in Turkey."