[rjh29]

The racism comes from the fact non-white people were not properly considered when the model was developed and trained. This comes up time and time again in AI, ranging from face ID that only works on white people, to porn classifiers that associate black people with NSFW images.

[creato]

No matter how good or well trained on good data with good representation of all skin colors a classifier is, it’s going to misclassify people and things periodically, and it’s definitely going to misclassify black people as gorillas more often than other races.

[changoplatanero]

But, white people get misclassified as animals by the classifier too. Typically white people aren't misclassified as gorillas but as other animals. So i don't think the cause is as simple as non-white people not being considered during training.

[rjh29]

It classified 80 photos of the same black person as 'gorilla', I have not heard of that happening with white people.

[changoplatanero]

I saw lots of examples of white children being classified as seals

[bewaretheirs]

Have a link to an example or two? I can't find any after a few minutes of searching.

[changoplatanero]

i was working at google at the time so the examples i saw were all in internal documents

[jurimasa]

Of course.

[surgical_fire]

> The racism comes from the fact non-white people were not properly considered

Is this the case? Do we even know for a fact that only non-white people were mislabeled as anything else?

Or are we just, you know, throwing out baseless speculation as fact?