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Bing, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo all have similar results. Before everyone gets up in arms about this, consider that this search is (for now) using simple keyword
by jiggawatts 3y ago
Bing, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo all have similar results.
Before everyone gets up in arms about this, consider that this search is (for now) using simple keyword matching and isn't an AI that can understand sentences.
If you search for "woman with man" you'll get mostly white couples and the like.
Adding "white" anywhere prompts the search to look for the words "man", "woman", and "white". Images of random white couples aren't labelled with "white" in the alt-text or metadata. Images of mix-raced couples often mention "white", hence... the counter-intuitive behaviour.
This is a bit like adding "Earth" to a search term. Practically speaking no pictures taken on Earth are labelled as such, so the matches will tend to have a space theme to them.
- 2-718-281-828 3y agothat ... is a technically very plausible hypothesis
- TomSwirly 3y agoI came here to say this! I might add that this has showed up every few years on social media, always with this same, "Look at how the woke are destroying our search engines!", spin on it.
- kreetx 3y agoYup. It's a way to get people engaged due to negative feelings. I guess we won't get rid of it until we grow some kind of societal immunity to it. As the parent says, ddg and bing get similar results, so it's unlikely to be a pre-programmed bias.