Common names in Burkina Faso, West-Africa

Burkina Faso is a multi-cultural and diverse country with a rich history. In this article, we explore how personal names can be interpreted to reflect regional, ethnic appartenance within the country. Then we illustrate how the use of a personal name can affect a black-box Artificial Intelligence – such as OpenAI's DALL-E. This is a first article in our series of blog posts with tag #thisnamedpersondoesnotexist.