This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It reminds me of Google back in the day (probably early 2010s). If you searched for White Women, it returned professional and respectable images. But if you searched for Black Women, it returned explicit images.
Machine learning algorithms are like sponges and learn from existing social biases.
So? There are white people in the world. Ten bucks says she tuned it to make her look white for the clicks. I've seen this in person several times at my local college. People die for attention, and shit like this is an easy-in.
AI Kanye
That's funny!
Like what some has already said here: it's a commentary of what Anglo-centric societies view as "professional" at the time the model is trained. Why Anglo-centric? By virtue that the US is the center of internet activity.
Disappointing but not surprising. The world is full of racial bias, and people don't do a good job at all addressing this in their training data. If bias is what you're showing the model, that's exactly what it'll learn, too.
Sigh...
It's not racial bias, it works from a limited dataset and what it understands a "professional headshot" even is.
Seems like some ragebait to me.
While I agree with the dataset point I will say that I don’t believe this to be rage bait. It’s just pointing out and saying exactly what something did. That said AI isn’t meant for taking a picture and asking it to do something more with it for now. As well though to AI when it has tags like “professional headshot” in America and as an English input it will most likely pull from data that’s built around Hollywood types which will be a completely lopsided amount of blondes with blue eyes. It’s really important to me though that people read stuff like this article, and understand how we end up with some “news” outlets saying things like “someone said computers are racist” without understanding the context such as this. Outputs are only as good as the inputs.
