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Just because you don't mean to be racist doesn't mean the outcome of your behavior cannot bear a pungent racial smell. When people train models for facial recog
by threatofrain 6y ago
Just because you don't mean to be racist doesn't mean the outcome of your behavior cannot bear a pungent racial smell. When people train models for facial recognition, we don't assume researchers hate black people.
However, when you're making decisions for a lot of people, it would be deeply incompetent to not understand how you damaged an experience for the majority of customers. In other words, if the majority of your customers were black, then you'd notice that "black" was a banned keyword.
When you can't have everything you want, then how you prioritize says something about you.