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WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’ (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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Cross-posted from : https://feddit.de/post/5357539

Original link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/02/whatsapps-ai-palestine-kids-gun-gaza-bias-israel

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[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

You shouldn't get a stereotype [...] when you give a neutral prompt.

Actually... you kind of should. A neutral prompt should provide the most commonly appearing match from the training set... which is basically what stereotypes are; an abstraction from the most commonly appearing match from a person's experience.

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