Challenge: a recent study shows that large language models are susceptible to societal biases due to their exposure to human-generated data.
Approach: They propose two strategies to mitigate implicit gender biases in large language models . they create scenarios where implicit gender is present and develop a metric to assess the presence of biase .
Outcome: The proposed methods mitigate implicit biases with self-reflection and fine-tuning.

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