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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 04:50:08 JST feld

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   • Quixoticgeek
   • Rachel
   @rachel @quixoticgeek cameras themselves since time immemorial have been unable to capture black skin tones properly
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     Rachel (rachel@transitory.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 04:50:09 JST Rachel

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     • Quixoticgeek

     @quixoticgeek@social.v.st always has been
     
     there was the AI tool that made asian women look more white when "beauty" was adjusted
     
     there was wrist heart rate that didn't work on some skin tones
     
     there was face detection that could barely detect brown people
     
     and those are just the recent ones that bubbled up to my news feeds

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     Quixoticgeek (quixoticgeek@social.v.st)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 04:50:11 JST Quixoticgeek

     Deepseek is at least making it very very clear that these models merely encode the biases of the cultures that make them.

     Deepseek doesn't want to know about Tiananmen Square or Taiwan.

     Gitlabs copilot won't let you talk about trans people, or gender (or transactions...)

     The software systems we use implement the biases of those who make them.

     Think about that and remember the techbros making the software we all use and rely on.