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This topic is political and it attracts racists.
by wmf 3y ago
This topic is political and it attracts racists.
- jabradoodle 3y agoEverything is political if you view it through this lense. This is about the characteristics of a newly released algorithm.
- brigandish 3y agoI don't remember seeing any racists commenting on HN. YMMV, but it doesn't seem to be a problem. Maybe we could run all the comments through Gemini and get them cleaned up, so to speak, like we're chatting on a TV programme made for children, would that help?
- cinciro 3y agoAnything to do with the polis, or a gathering of people, is by definition political. Also, I think the "racists" you're talking about already entered the conversation when they programmed their ai to pretend that white men don't exist. Another point is that it's Google. Google has always been racist. Remember the "gorilla photo" controversy from just a few years back? Were the big heads at Google able to figure out the difference between black people and gorillas? No, they simply removed the gorillas. Remember a few years before that, with the autocorrect? "A white man stole my bike" prompted "Did you mean a black man stole your bike?" It's Google. They've always been racist. Why you're worried about people pointing that out I'll never know.