ChatGPT Perpetuates Gender Bias in Machine Translation and Ignores Non-Gendered Pronouns: Findings across Bengali and Five other Low-Resource Languages

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In this multicultural age, language translation is one of the most performed tasks, and it is becoming increasingly AI-moderated and automated.

• As a novel AI system, ChatGPT claims to be proficient in such translation tasks and in this paper, we put that claim to the test.
• Specifically, we examine ChatGPT's accuracy in translating between English and languages that exclusively use gender-neutral pronouns.
• We center this study around Bengali, the 7$^{th}$ most spoken language globally, but also generalize our findings across five other languages: Farsi, Malay, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.