Mitigation of Gender and Ethnicity Bias in AI-Generated Stories through Model Explanations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04515v1
• Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:25:25 GMT
• Title: Mitigation of Gender and Ethnicity Bias in AI-Generated Stories through Model Explanations
• Authors: Martha O. Dimgba, Sharon Oba, Ameeta Agrawal, Philippe J. Giabbanelli,
• Abstract summary: Language models have been shown to propagate social bias through their output, particularly in the representation of gender and ethnicity.<n>This paper investigates gender and ethnicity biases in AI-generated occupational stories.<n>Our proposed mitigation strategy, Bias Analysis and Mitigation through Explanation (BAME), reveals improvements in demographic representation ranging from 2% to 20%.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Language models have been shown to propagate social bias through their output, particularly in the representation of gender and ethnicity. This paper investigates gender and ethnicity biases in AI-generated occupational stories. Representation biases are measured before and after applying our proposed mitigation strategy, Bias Analysis and Mitigation through Explanation (BAME), revealing improvements in demographic representation ranging from 2% to 20%. BAME leverages model-generated explanations to inform targeted prompt engineering, effectively reducing biases without modifying model parameters. By analyzing stories generated across 25 occupational groups, three large language models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, and GPT-4 Turbo), and multiple demographic dimensions, we identify persistent patterns of overrepresentation and underrepresentation linked to training data stereotypes. Our findings demonstrate that guiding models with their own internal reasoning mechanisms can significantly enhance demographic parity, thereby contributing to the development of more transparent generative AI systems.

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