Digital Skin, Digital Bias: Uncovering Tone-Based Biases in LLMs and Emoji Embeddings.

@inproceedings{li-2026-digital, author = {Mingchen Li and Wajdi Aljedaani and Yingjie Liu and Navyasri Meka and Xuan Lu and Xinyue Ye and Junhua Ding and Yunhe Feng}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{Digital Skin, Digital Bias: Uncovering Tone-Based Biases in LLMs and Emoji Embeddings}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {1662--1671}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792508}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792508} }