Clustering Discourses: Racial Biases in Short Stories about Women Generated by Large Language Models
Gustavo Bonil, João Gondim, Marina dos Santos, Simone Hashiguti, Helena Maia, Nadia Silva, Helio Pedrini, Sandra Avila
Published: 2025/9/2
Abstract
This study investigates how large language models, in particular LLaMA 3.2-3B, construct narratives about Black and white women in short stories generated in Portuguese. From 2100 texts, we applied computational methods to group semantically similar stories, allowing a selection for qualitative analysis. Three main discursive representations emerge: social overcoming, ancestral mythification and subjective self-realization. The analysis uncovers how grammatically coherent, seemingly neutral texts materialize a crystallized, colonially structured framing of the female body, reinforcing historical inequalities. The study proposes an integrated approach, that combines machine learning techniques with qualitative, manual discourse analysis.