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It really was just trading one bias (the existing world as it stands) for another bias (the preferred biases of SF tech lefties) so that was kind of funny in it

It really was just trading one bias (the existing world as it stands) for another bias (the preferred biases of SF tech lefties) so that was kind of funny in its own way. It would have been one thing if it just randomly assigned gender/race, but it had certain one-way biases (modifying men to women and/or white to non-white) but not the opposite direction... and then being oddly defiant in its responses when people asked for specific demographic outputs. Obviously a lot of this was done by users for the gotcha screen grabs, but in a real world product users may realistically may want specific demographic outputs for example if you are using images for marketing and have specific targeting intent or to match the demographics of your area / business /etc. Stock image websites allow you to search including demographic terms for this reason.

AstralStorm 2y ago
If the current set of biases can be construed to lead to death, heck yeah I will take another set. The idea is that this other set of biases will at least have a chance of not landing us in hot water (or hot air as it might be right now). Now note again, that the current set of biases got us in an existential risk and likely disaster. (Ask Exxon how unbiased they were.) AI does not optimize for this thing at all. It cannot tell the logical results from, say, hiring a cutthroat egoist. It cannot detect one from a CV. Which could be a much bigger and more dangerous bias than discrimination against disabled. It might be likely optimizing for hiring conformists even if told to prefer diversity, as many companies are, and that would choke any creative industry ultimately. It might be optimizing for short term tactics over long term strategy. Etc. The idea here is that certain set of biases go together, even in AI. It's like a culture, we could test for it. In this case, hiring or organizational culture.

AstralStorm 2y ago

If the current set of biases can be construed to lead to death, heck yeah I will take another set. The idea is that this other set of biases will at least have a chance of not landing us in hot water (or hot air as it might be right now). Now note again, that the current set of biases got us in an existential risk and likely disaster. (Ask Exxon how unbiased they were.) AI does not optimize for this thing at all. It cannot tell the logical results from, say, hiring a cutthroat egoist. It cannot detect one from a CV. Which could be a much bigger and more dangerous bias than discrimination against disabled. It might be likely optimizing for hiring conformists even if told to prefer diversity, as many companies are, and that would choke any creative industry ultimately. It might be optimizing for short term tactics over long term strategy. Etc. The idea here is that certain set of biases go together, even in AI. It's like a culture, we could test for it. In this case, hiring or organizational culture.