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We don’t really know that. It’s possible at some point the AI may have been classifying white humans as primates but nobody cares because it’s white humans. You
by xwdv 5y ago
We don’t really know that. It’s possible at some point the AI may have been classifying white humans as primates but nobody cares because it’s white humans. You only have a story worth reading when it’s against an underprivileged minority.
- tgv 5y agoIt's unlikely. Search for images of primate, and you'll see fairly dark, humanoid shapes. Poor training data then seems like a more probable reason for visual confusion. > You only have a story worth reading when it’s against an underprivileged minority. To some extent. But I think there would also be a story if some medicine would work badly on white people, or men. The problem here is that these labels would be there for everyone to see and comment on. If facebook would live by their own rules, they would ban the AI team from using fb accounts.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoYeah, white primates are pretty weird. It only happened because a few migrated north into temperate Europe and Asia and lost their melanin a while ago.
- xwdv 5y agoThey didn’t lose it. Lighter tones were more popular with potential mates and resulted in gradual whitening over time.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoRunaway sexual selection effects generally don't result in beneficial traits; reduced melanin is beneficial in less sunny climates, because cholecalciferol (so-called “Vitamin D₃”, even though it's not a vitamin) synthesis requires sun exposure. And yes, having less of something is correctly called “losing” it in the English language. That was not a correction.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoThis might be true of great apes, but of primates in general, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_monkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_monkey, for instance.
- tartoran 5y agoIt would be fine for Black people too if the context was purely taxonomy and all people would be classified as primates. But that is not what happened here.