> the classifier is just reflecting that because it was trained on public data Are you suggesting that the cause here is that there are a lot of racist images

> the classifier is just reflecting that because it was trained on public data Are you suggesting that the cause here is that there are a lot of racist images on the internet visually depicting black people as gorillas? I assume that is not the understanding of most people here who are questioning what makes this racist, because if that is indeed the cause then I agree it is obviously racist. Is it the cause though? I would be interested to see some evidence or rationale, because I don’t think I have ever seen an image like this outside of perhaps a handful of very old hand drawn propaganda images (which presumably would not affect the classifier much due to being overwhelmed by the vast number of images of real people and real gorillas).