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I'm sorry but I just don't buy that. If you say show me a picture of person from background X and it refuses to oblige or gives you a misrepresentation , isn't
by bko 3y ago
I'm sorry but I just don't buy that. If you say show me a picture of person from background X and it refuses to oblige or gives you a misrepresentation , isn't that the definition of discrimination? Is denying the existence of some groups of people somehow friendly to advertisers? Who in the world is asking to show uniform distribution of some racial/gender groups in every image?
- polski-g 3y agohttps://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/think-of-the-poorest-person-you-have https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/think-of-the-poorest-pe... > If nothing else, bear in mind that an image generator that has its thumb so heavily on the scale is less useful for users of all races. (A Black kid who wants an image of a typical Scandinavian Viking for a history paper is not helped here.) ... But… what racism does it actually fight? Which Black person’s life is improved by pretending that there were Black Vikings? And this points to far broader and more important questions. We live in a world where fighting racism has gone from fighting for an economy where all Black families can put food on the table to white people acknowledging the land rights of dead Native Americans before they give conference panels about how to maximize synergy in corporate workflow. In a world of affinity groups, diversity pledges, and an obsession with language that tests the boundaries of the possible, we have to ask ourselves hard questions about what any of it actually accomplishes. Who is all of this shit for?