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   MeredithW (meredithw@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 06:33:12 JST MeredithW

   • Wolven

   An MIT student asked AI to make her headshot more ‘professional.’ It gave her lighter skin and blue eyes.
   “I was like, ‘Wow, does this thing think I should become white to become more professional?’” said Wang, who is Asian American.

   @Wolven have you seen this?

   https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/19/business/an-mit-student-asked-ai-make-her-headshot-more-professional-it-gave-her-lighter-skin-blue-eyes/

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 01:10:01 JST Sexy Moon

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     @meredithw > does this thing think
     
     no.
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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:27:29 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • Denian

     @Denian @meredithw @Wolven

     "Nobody actively "programs" an AI to be racist"

     we understand that. what silver-spooned techbros don't is that it's not enough to be not-racist. you have to be ANTI-RACIST. but that's antithetical to who they are. they do insist they are superior. even their not-so-unmelanined canon fodder coming from southern hemisphere cultures metastasized by castes & caciquismos, they believe their adjacency to the unmelanined makes them our betters. and that oozes into the code

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:27:38 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • Wolven

     @meredithw @Wolven if cryptofascist libertarians, Musk-and-or-your-billionaire-loving wankers, embarrassed millionaires, billionaires-in-waiting, love-the-police-state-for-thee-not-for-me fuckwads are developing the software then that's what you get

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     Denian (denian@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:27:38 JST Denian

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @blogdiva @meredithw @Wolven It's not a software issue, it's a training data issue. There's a difference. Nobody actively "programs" an AI to be racist, but people rarely, if ever, remember to actively escape the demographic distribution they see every day when they look for training data. And in some cases, it's actually impossible, because genetic outliers like albinos, for example, just ARE too rare to be well-represented in training image sets.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.