I've used apps that thought I was a monkey but it recognized white people just fine, I've seen racist chat bots go on about how much they love hitler and hate black people, I've saw ai generated photos that produced racist depictions. What I'm wondering is it the developers making the ai racist or is it the code itself that is racist? I don't believe that any machine has reached sentience obviously, but I have no doubt in my mind that all ai I have experienced is racist, all I ask is why?

  • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Trchbros use biased input data, are too lazy to do the research to avoid this, and are often racist themselves in the questions they choose to raise.

    Even when these things aren't true, they're systemically promoted because the marketing promise of AI is that you get high quality models without having to do all that researching and science but can just throw data at a box and get magic out. They're not paying you to address the biases in the dataset or bringing social science experts or fuck just a bunch of people to look at and criticize the modeling. They're paying you because your resume said deep learning on it and that's a magic box you put data into and gets insights from. And it works perfectly on 90% of the devs and owners.