You're talking about a different problem than the original thread. The original thread isn't saying "the underlying world is biased"; Obama's face exists in the

You're talking about a different problem than the original thread. The original thread isn't saying "the underlying world is biased"; Obama's face exists in the world. It's saying that the dataset isn't reflective of the world, and this is an issue because then you'll end up with voice tools[1], facial recognition software[2], and sentencing algorithms[3] end up performing disproportionately poorly on some minority groups. And this ends up reinforcing the poor positions many people are already in. 1) https://www.pnas.org/content/117/14/7684 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/14/7684 2) http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a.html?mod=article_inline http://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a.html?mod=arti... 3) https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/big.2016.0047 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/big.2016.0047