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I find a lot of the discussion here baffling and tone deaf. There are a lot of comments saying "but humans are primates". It's a dismissal of systemic racism is
by ant6n 5y ago
I find a lot of the discussion here baffling and tone deaf. There are a lot of comments saying "but humans are primates". It's a dismissal of systemic racism issues coming from a privileged position that's akin to responding the black lives matter movement with "all lives matter".
Some of the commenters may exactly think that the algorithm is objective, forgetting that it's built by ppl, for ppl, tested by ppl. If the algorithm kept labelling bearded white dudes as vaginas, it wouldn't be pushed to production, because it would found as a bug and dealt with somehow. But labelling people of color as monkeys is apparently something they're unaware of, which doesn't necessarily point to deliberate racism, but a systemic racism issue.
In a lot of discussion here, everyone, on all sides of the argument, is getting voted down. Perhaps this shows this community is not ready for these types of discussions.
- jrm4 5y agoSadly but unsurprisingly, I'm seeing it mostly isn't. But we soldier on.