AI RESEARCH
Digital Skin, Digital Bias: Uncovering Tone-Based Biases in LLMs and Emoji Embeddings
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.06863v1 Announce Type: cross Skin-toned emojis are crucial for fostering personal identity and social inclusion in online communication. As AI models, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), increasingly mediate interactions on web platforms, the risk that these systems perpetuate societal biases through their representation of such symbols is a significant concern. This paper presents the first large-scale comparative study of bias in skin-toned emoji representations across two distinct model classes.