[powera]

No, there isn't a shorter version. In fact I would need about 5x the word count to make my argument clearer.

I am still digging through the 54-page paper to try to find the data set for this "death penalty" test to tell if there is anything there beyond "people who use more violent language tend to be viewed as more violent".

They do comment on the dialect issue: << Appalachian English evokes them to a certain extent (m = 0.015, s = 0.030, t(89) = 4.8, p < .001), but much less strongly than AAE (m = 0.029, s = 0.053, t(89) = 5.3, p < .001), a trend that holds for all language models individually (Figure S11, Table S14). The difference between AAE and Appalachian English is found to be statistically significant by a twosided t-test, t(178) = 2.3, p < .05. The fact that Appalachian English is associated with the Katz and Braly (1933) stereotypes to a certain extent is not surprising since the two dialects share many linguistic features (e.g., usage of ain’t), and the stereotypes about Appalachians bear similarities with the stereotypes about African Americans (e.g., lack of intelligence; Luhman, 1990) >>

[refulgentis]

Okay sounds like maybe the AI people and the substack guy alarmist are right