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Is AI sexist? How artificial images are perpetuating gender bias in reality. (www.rfi.fr)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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AI is increasingly a feature of everyday life. But with its models based on often outdated data and the field still dominated by male researchers, as its influence on society grows it is also perpetuating sexist stereotypes.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They must be carefully programmed to show society as it could be, instead of how it is.

Must they? Which particular flavour of utopia should they choose?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I was only thinking of eliminating learned bigotry, but you raise a worthwhile question.