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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harriette Boucher

AI models are struggling to identify hate speech, study finds

Open AI, Google and DeepSeek are classifying hate speech differently amongst each other - (Getty Images)

Some of the biggest artificial intelligence models moderating the content that is seen by the public are inconsistently classifying what counts as hate speech, new research has claimed.

The study, led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, found Open AI, Google, and DeepSeek, which are employed by social media platforms to censor content, are defining discriminatory content by different standards.

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