Algorithmic Fragility and Persona Bias in LLM-Generated Autistic Communication
Safety alignment reduces explicitly harmful outputs but inadvertently encodes a sanitized, neuronormative representation of marginalized communication. We investigate this encoding using a dual-persona rewrite paradigm, prompting ten large language models (LLMs) to rewrite naturally occurring autistic discourse from either an autistic or neurotypical persona. We uncover autistic-persona rewrites diverge significantly more in lexical form and affective register than neurotypical rewrites, despite
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Published: 26 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Safety & alignment · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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