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So, AI-powered cultural appropriation? Literally tricking people into thinking they are dealing with someone from their culture. Ethnic fraud. But the Guardian
by tarakat 4y ago
So, AI-powered cultural appropriation? Literally tricking people into thinking they are dealing with someone from their culture. Ethnic fraud. But the Guardian predictably frames it as if the people being tricked are at fault, instead of the victims. That if only they were more virtuous, they wouldn't need to be tricked.
I wonder how The Guardian would react if e.g. the British were using AI when doing business in South America to trick the locals into thinking they were doing business with other locals. Would they also be accusing the locals of xenophobia?
- taylorius 4y agoTo paraphrase the great cultural commentator Richard B. Riddick. "Your first mistake - you read the article".
- Tenoke 4y agoCultural appropriation is an odd way to frame it for anything but inducing outrage. It's definitely a bit questionable and tricking people (and making e.g. scams easier) but there's also obvious benefits beyond tricking people - e.g. making it easier to understand call workers.
- david38 4y agoCulture appropriation is the adoption of something from another culture. Every single culture does this. Are you Asian making pizza? That's cultural appropriation. It's not a bad thing, it's just a thing. This also isn't ethnic fraud. That would be someone who is say, Japanese claiming to be Indian, when they are in fact fully ethnically Japanese. Not once has someone claimed an ethnicity on a support call with me. Implied? Sure. I've heard people with heavy Indian accents tell me their name was Cindy, Sarah, James, etc, but this is only by implication. If your core concern is the outsourcing of jobs, then you can easily ask "in what country are you located?"