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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07856-5

LLMs already discriminates against African-American English. You could argue a human grader would as well, but all tested models were more consistent in assigning negative adjectives to hypothetical speakers of that dialect.

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This is entirely unsurprising to me. As taught to me, written English (in the US) has a much stricter structure and vocabulary. African-American English was used as the primary example of incorrect and unprofessional writing.

I think that it’s a little more complicated than that as the comment from Brad Daniels at this link would show - https://www.takeourword.com/TOW145/page4.html

NB: I am not African-American, nor did I grew up on an African-American community, and I performed very well on all sorts of verbal tests. Yet, even I made the all intensive purposes mistake until well into adulthood. Probably a Midwestern thing.

*grow up in