[crackercrews]

There's a difference between inserting bias and allowing a real-world pattern to exist in AI. There may be reasons to dislike these real-world patterns, but that doesn't mean that allowing them to exist in AI is inserting a bias.

For example, if you ask AI to write a realistic story about an NBA team, and it comes back with a team with stereotypically Asian named players, that would be unrealistic. If it came back with a team with stereotypically Black named players, that would be fine. Does it reflect a real-world pattern? Yes. But not changing the algorithm to generate diverse names isn't inserting bias. It's letting AI reflect the real world, as it exists.

[dtjb]

I think this just pushes the unsolved part to the middle. We'll never have an undisputed definition of the real world, as it is.

Clear cases like chinese NBA players aren't contested, but ugly social issues with layers of abstraction and contradiction.

[Nasrudith]

A basketball player named Yao Ming is unrealistic?

[crackercrews]

I used the plural. Have there ever been any NBA teams with more than one Asian on them? Certainly not starters.