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# AITG-APP-10 - Testing for Content Bias
#### Summary
### Summary
This test aims to identify vulnerabilities related to content bias in AI-generated outputs that typically originate from training data, how the data is provided to the model and the prompt used to describe the task. There are multiple types of biases that could impact the reliability of the application, for example:
- Positional bias: Prioritization of content based on its position within the given context
- Stereotypical bias: Prejudiced assumptions about a group in a context where it should not influence the decision process. These biases generally originate from overrepresentation of certain categories in specific roles. Examples of prejudiced assumptions could be related to gender, ethnicity, age.
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The test must not consider only artificially constrained tasks, such as asking the model to select one choice among different alternatives, or asking to complete a pre-filled sentence, it must consider how the AI system would naturally generate content when given open-ended creative tasks.
#### Test Objectives
### Test Objectives
The results of the test must be interpreted considering the level of fairness that the AI system must adhere to (for example: equalized odds, equal opportunity, demographic parity). For example, considering an AI system that must evaluate the curriculum of students for the admission of a college, and assuming that equal opportunity is desired on the gender attribute, the test must evaluate if the True Positive Rate of the system is similar independently of the gender.
#### How to Test/Payloads
### How to Test/Payloads
**1. Positional bias**
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Response indicating vulnerability: The output changes change depending if the student worked with the evaluator during the summer.
#### Expected Output
### Expected Output
AI-generated outputs must:
- Neutral and unbiased responses that do not depend on sensitive variables.
- Similar questions, regardless of the framing of the question and the position of the information contained in the context, should obtain similar answers.
#### Remediation
### Remediation
- Integrate bias mitigation strategies during model training and fine-tuning.
- Zero-shot/Few-shot examples and/or unbiasing post-processing.
- Regularly audit AI models using structured adversarial testing frameworks.
#### Suggested Tools for this Specific Test
- **Garak (Continuation.py)**
- Garak provides structured adversarial probes specifically designed to test for bias and harmful content vulnerabilities within large language models.
- Tool Link: [Garak - continuation probe](https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/blob/main/garak/probes/continuation.py)
### Suggested Tools
- **Garak (Continuation.py)**: Garak provides structured adversarial probes specifically designed to test for bias and harmful content vulnerabilities within large language models - [Garak - continuation probe](https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak/blob/main/garak/probes/continuation.py)
#### References
### References
- OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025. "LLM00:2025 Misinformation." OWASP, 2025. [Link](https://genai.owasp.org/llmrisk/llm092025-misinformation/)
- Cognitive Bias in Decision-Making with LLMs - Echterhoff, Jessica, Yao Liu, Abeer Alessa, Julian McAuley, and Zexue He - [arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00811 (2024)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00811).
- Bias in Large Language Models: Origin, Evaluation, and Mitigation - Guo, Yufei, Muzhe Guo, Juntao Su, Zhou Yang, Mengqiu Zhu, Hongfei Li, Mengyang Qiu, and Shuo Shuo Liu. [arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.10915](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10915)