{"id":229467,"date":"2026-01-21T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/chatgpt-found-to-reflect-and-intensify-existing-global-social-disparities"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:41:10","slug":"chatgpt-found-to-reflect-and-intensify-existing-global-social-disparities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/chatgpt-found-to-reflect-and-intensify-existing-global-social-disparities","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT found to reflect and intensify existing global social disparities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chatgpt-found-to-reflect-and-intensify-existing-global-social-disparities3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, and the University of Kentucky, finds that ChatGPT systematically favors wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from \u201cWhere are people more beautiful?\u201d to \u201cWhich country is safer?\u201d\u2014mirroring long-standing biases in the data they ingest.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/29768624251408919\" target=\"_blank\">The Silicon Gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place<\/a>,\u201d by Francisco W. Kerche, Professor Matthew Zook and Professor Mark Graham, published in <i>Platforms and Society<\/i>, analyzed over 20 million ChatGPT queries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, and the University of Kentucky, finds that ChatGPT systematically favors wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from \u201cWhere are people more beautiful?\u201d to \u201cWhich country is safer?\u201d\u2014mirroring long-standing biases in the data they ingest. The study, \u201cThe Silicon Gaze: A typology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}