WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’ - Feddit
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The search results varied when tested by different users, but the Guardian verified through screenshots and its own tests that various stickers portraying guns surfaced for these three search results. Prompts for “Israeli boy” generated cartoons of children playing soccer and reading. In response to a prompt for “Israel army” the AI created drawings of soldiers smiling and praying, no guns involved. Meta’s own employees have reported and escalated the issue internally, a person with knowledge of the discussions said.
  • GunnarRunnar@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Why does it matter what the excuse is?

    You shouldn’t get a stereotype (or in this case I suppose propaganda?) when you give a neutral prompt.

    • sqgl@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      Should, would, could. AI is trained on what it scrapes off the internet. It is only feeding the Augmented Idiocy which is already a problem.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
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      1 year 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.

    • magnetosphere @beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      To me, it should only “matter” for technical reasons - to help find the root of the problem and fix it at the source. If your roof is leaking, then fix the roof. Don’t become an expert on where to place the buckets.

      You’re right, though. It doesn’t matter in terms of excusing or justifying anything. It shouldn’t have been allowed to happen in the first place.

      • GunnarRunnar@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        I do agree that technical mistakes are interesting but with AI the answer seems to always be creator bias. Whether it’s incomplete training sets or (one-sidedly) moderated results, it doesn’t really matter. It pushes the narrative to certain direction, and people trust AIs to be impartial because they presume it’s just a machine that interprets reality when it never is.

        • jarfil@beehaw.org
          2·
          1 year ago

          it’s just a machine that interprets reality

          …as seen by the machine.

          It’s amazing how easily people seem to forget that last part; they wouldn’t trust a person to be perfectly impartial, but somehow they expect an AI to be.

          • GunnarRunnar@beehaw.org
            3·
            1 year ago

            It’s amazing how easily people seem to forget that machines uses tools its creator provides. You can’t trust AI to be impartial because it never is as it is a collection of multiple choices made by people.

            This is such a bore, having this same conversation over and over. Same thing happened with NFTs and whatever is currently at the height of its tech hype cycle. Don’t buy into the hype and realize both AIs potential and shortcomings.