"For example, the program defined one white woman as a “stunner, looker, mantrap,” and “dish,” describing her as “a very attractive or seductive looking woman.” Many people of color have noted an obvious racist bias to their results. Jamal Jordan, a journalist at the New York Times, explained on Twitter that each of his uploaded photographs returned tags like “Black, Black African, Negroid, or Negro."
They claim this is AI, but earlier in the article, it states that mechanical turk was used. Mechanical Turk is basically just people getting paid pennies or fractions of a penny to tag these photos.
Many people on Mechanical Turk are from countries where English is not their first language and they don't have the same idea of racism as we do here in the US, which would explain the racist tags mentioned in the article.
This doesn't really show us anything about AI and racial bias and more that other countries still aren't up to our levels of what we consider decent.
The AI connection is that these are the type of datasets that feed AI systems. It shows that you have to be careful when curating your dataset, so that you don't further bias.
I just hope the masses don't glom onto this, start shrieking that "AI is racist", and attempt to take AI completely out of the picture.
As someone who spent years in those villages I can tell you it is exactly how they view the world. The only posturing comparable to the one coming from the so called enlightened anti-racist comments that I ever heard/read about was Marie Antoinette saying "Let them eat cake". She ended up without her head.
They claim this is AI, but earlier in the article, it states that mechanical turk was used. Mechanical Turk is basically just people getting paid pennies or fractions of a penny to tag these photos.
Many people on Mechanical Turk are from countries where English is not their first language and they don't have the same idea of racism as we do here in the US, which would explain the racist tags mentioned in the article.
This doesn't really show us anything about AI and racial bias and more that other countries still aren't up to our levels of what we consider decent.