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Roughly one in five Koreans have surname "Kim". Upward of 40% Vietnamese have surname "Nguyen". "Li" is quite popular in China. Specifying "Asian last name"

• vostrocity 3mo ago
  The odd thing is one of the guys has the first name Chang, and the other guy has the last name Chang.
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• dgellow 3mo ago
  But what makes that necessary context? That can be communicated clearly without specifying Asian, „Apple confused 2 people with the same name“. Adding Asian sort of excuse Apple for the mistake, which is strange for OpenAI to do? I would tend to believe they are implying some casual racism
  • tmp10423288442 3mo ago
    > I would tend to believe they are implying some casual racism There's probably a little bit of that, but also simple carelessness.
  • prewett 3mo ago
    Because confusing two people because of having the same name is much less likely for European names than for Asian names (there are only about 100 Chinese family names, for instance), so it's an indirect dig that Apple wasn't paying attention (since they presumably employ a lot of Asians, and thus should know better). There's no need to bang on the racism drum, it's pretty tiring.
    • dgellow 3mo ago
      The “Asian” part is a meaningless information to include in such a blog article, if not to imply that Apple is casually racist…
• ergocoder 3mo ago
  "Wang" can be one of the 2 popular different last names in China and Taiwan.