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Translation: AI has the potential to transform society. When we release this model to the public it will be used in ways we haven’t anticipated. We know the mod
by josho 4y ago
Translation: AI has the potential to transform society. When we release this model to the public it will be used in ways we haven’t anticipated. We know the model has bias and we need more time to consider releasing this to the public out of concerns that this transformative technology further perpetuate mistakes that we’ve made in our recent past.
- curiousgal 4y ago> it will be used in ways we haven’t anticipated Oh yeah, as a woman who grew up in a Third World country, how an AI model generates images would have deeply affected my daily struggles! /s It's kinda insulting that they think that this would be insulting. Like "Oh no I asked the model to draw a doctor and it drew a male doctor, I guess there's no point in me pursuing medical studies" ...
- boppo1 4y agoI don't think the concern over offense is actually about you. There's a metagame here which is that if it could potentially offend you (third-world-originated-woman), then there's a brand-image liability for the company. I don't think they care about you, I think they care about not being hit on as "the company that algorithmically identifies black people as gorillas".
- pxmpxm 4y agoPostmodernism is what postmodernism does.
- contingencies 4y agoLove it. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
- pxmpxm 4y agoHa! However different pxmpxm on github, I'm afraid.
- contingencies 4y agoThat's almost poetic. Watch them attempt to make sense of the situation.
- colinmhayes 4y agoYes actually, subconscious bias due to historical prejudice does have a large effect on society. Obviously there are things with much larger effects, that doesn't mean that this doesn't exist. > Oh no I asked the model to draw a doctor and it drew a male doctor, I guess there's no point in me pursuing medical studies If you don't think this is a real thing that happens to children you're not thinking especially hard. It doesn't have to be common to be real.
- curiousgal 4y ago> If you don't think this is a real thing that happens to children you're not thinking especially hard I believe that's where parenting comes in. Maybe I'm too cynical but I think that the parents' job is to undo all of the harm done by society and instill in their children the "correct" values.
- colinmhayes 4y agoI'd say you're right. Unfortunately many people are raised by bad parents. Should these researchers accept that their work may perpetuate stereotypes that harm those that most need help? I can see why they wouldn't want that.
- holmesworcester 4y ago> I think that the parents' job is to undo all of the harm done by society and instill in their children the "correct" values. Far from being too cynical, this is too optimistic. The vast majority of parents try to instill the value "do not use heroin." And yet society manages to do that harm on a large scale. There are other examples.
- cgrealy 4y agoIsn't that putting an undue load on parents? It seems extremely unfair that parents of young black men should have to work extra hard to tell their kids they're not destined to be criminals. Hell, it's not fair on parents of blonde girls to tell their kids they don't have to be just dumb and pretty. (note: I am deliberately picking bad stereotypes that are pervasive in our culture... I am not in any way suggesting those are true.)
- renewiltord 4y agoIt's not meant to prevent offence to you. It is meant to be a "good product" by the metrics of their creators. And quite simply, everyone here incapable of making the thing is unlikely to have an image of what a "good product" here is. More power to them for having a good vision of what they're building.