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The racism comes from the fact non-white people were not properly considered when the model was developed and trained. This comes up time and time again in AI,
by rjh29 3y ago
The racism comes from the fact non-white people were not properly considered when the model was developed and trained. This comes up time and time again in AI, ranging from face ID that only works on white people, to porn classifiers that associate black people with NSFW images.
- creato 3y agoNo matter how good or well trained on good data with good representation of all skin colors a classifier is, it’s going to misclassify people and things periodically, and it’s definitely going to misclassify black people as gorillas more often than other races.
- changoplatanero 3y agoBut, white people get misclassified as animals by the classifier too. Typically white people aren't misclassified as gorillas but as other animals. So i don't think the cause is as simple as non-white people not being considered during training.
- rjh29 3y agoIt classified 80 photos of the same black person as 'gorilla', I have not heard of that happening with white people.
- changoplatanero 3y agoI saw lots of examples of white children being classified as seals
- bewaretheirs 3y agoHave a link to an example or two? I can't find any after a few minutes of searching.
- changoplatanero 3y agoi was working at google at the time so the examples i saw were all in internal documents
- jurimasa 3y agoOf course.
- surgical_fire 3y ago> The racism comes from the fact non-white people were not properly considered Is this the case? Do we even know for a fact that only non-white people were mislabeled as anything else? Or are we just, you know, throwing out baseless speculation as fact?