LLMs systematically misrepresent Global Majority nationalities through stereotyping and one-dimensional portrayals, creating real risks for applications like asylum interviews. These harms are structural, not just surface-level, and require deliberate mitigation strategies.
This paper reveals how popular LLMs perpetuate harmful stereotypes and biases against people from Global Majority countries in generated narratives. Researchers found that non-Western nationalities are underrepresented in neutral stories but overrepresented in negative character roles—over 50 times more likely to appear in subordinated positions.