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At the same time, nearly daily there’s a “google did a bad thing” post on HN front page. Can’t win I guess?
by wepple 3y ago
At the same time, nearly daily there’s a “google did a bad thing” post on HN front page.
Can’t win I guess?
- davidmurdoch 3y agoThere are things Google does itself, and then there are the things Google won't allow users to do.
- wepple 3y agoCan we trust the media and congress to distinguish the two? So many platforms have come under fire for “supporting” a theme, when all they’ve done in reality is provide media hosting services for user generated content, and %0.001 of bad content isn’t removed, thus Facebook/twitter/YouTube is held to blame FWIW I don’t think there’s a clear answer to the underlying problem. I have just learnt to expect the media to blame whoever is easiest for clicks at any given point. Right now, it’s big tech.
- baobabKoodaa 3y agoNobody would complain on HN if Google Gemini was generating pictures of Lincoln existing as a... gasp... white person. This absurd level of woke censorship is not doing them any good.
- narrator 3y agoIf you put in a fictional story that in the future computers could generate any image, but would refuse to make images of Lincoln as a white person, people would tell you you were an absolute lunatic confabulating paranoid fantasies that were ludicrous strawmen, but here we are. It's almost as if we should remove "slippery slope" from the list of informal fallacies since lately it's been more true to reality than not.
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- baobabKoodaa 3y agoI never said white Lincoln would be the "only" thing censored. It's a prototypical example of the actual censorship that's going on. And you accuse me of strawmen?
- UberFly 3y agoWill this be a case where everyone ends up using the hand-me-down 2nd gen hacked version because its limitations have been removed? We'll see I guess.
- wepple 3y agoPeople would 1000% complain if a search for “skilled scientist” was 90% white men, even if that tracked completely true to statistical reality.
- baobabKoodaa 3y agoThat's true. But asking to generate a specific historical figure, like "Abraham Lincoln", should generate 100% white man.