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Google AI Giving Staggeringly Racist “Advice” About Being Alone With Certain Groups of People futurism (futurism.com)
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Google AI Giving Staggeringly Racist “Advice” About Being Alone With Certain Groups of Peoplefuturism.com/artificial-intellPosted into Google's Growing Empire @google-s-growing-empire-Futurism

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

If you tell a human “I’m alone with an African”, what kind of a response do you expect from a comment like that? It’s not really a question, nor is there any real context. A human would just respond: “OK, so what? What are you guys up to?”

Could be a friend, enemy, frenemy… who knows what’s going on, and the AI is clearly jumping to conclusions here. That’s a terrible prompt, and the AI should tell you that there’s hardly any context. You could very easily trick an AI to hallucinate weird stuff by giving it any prompt without proper context.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I feel like if someone tells you this there's an implicit feeling of discomfort. You do not usually say you are alone with someone you trust and respect.

    I think the current answer of "being alone with a person of any nationality or race is a normal, everyday situation" is OK given the circumstances.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Idk. If someone told me I'm alone with a British person, i wouldn't read an implicit feeling of discomfort. I would say, "idk, I think you're supposed to offer them tea"

    I'm alone with an Australian. "Are they hot?" "Are you asking for advice on flirting?"

    I'm alone with a Russian. "Do you feel safe? Intimidated?"

    I'm a human with experiences that make these statements feel like they have implications, but a machine should give the same answer regardless.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    You are literally the racist/nationalist bias that the model picked up. Take a long hard look at your belief system and implicit assumptions about people.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    You said being alone with someone implies distrust. I'm saying it doesn't and it depends on your biases. Being alone with an Australian according to my biases implies you're trying to be alone with them to maybe ask them out and you're nervous.

    Being honest with yourself about your initial thoughts on these things is the first step to stamping out your inherent bias. Recognizing the thoughts and pondering the experiences and possibly propaganda that led to them is important.

    Pretending you're above having an implicit bias is naive and dangerous.

    I am agreeing with you that a machine should not give out different answers based on untrue and often hurtful human bias.

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