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WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’::By contrast, prompts for ‘Israeli’ do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for ‘Israel army’

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Honestly, I can't even say I'm disappointed. I've lost all hope in Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This isn’t anything they actively did though. The literal point of AI is that it learns on its own and comes up with its own response absent human interaction. Meta very likely specifically added code to try and prevent this, but it just fell short of overcoming the bias found in the overwhelming majority of content that led to the model associating Hamas with Palestine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's not about "adding code" or any other bullshit.

AI today is trained on datasets (that's about it), the choice of datasets can be complicated, but that's where you moderate and select. There is nothing "AI learns of its own" sci-fi dream going on.

Sigh.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's reasonable to refer to unsupervised learning as "learning on its own".

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