As a brown Latino man :D, the Gemini saga was so perfect and funny and complex from Google. I hope it will have some positive consequences in the way AI is developed. Hopefully things like this will help increase diversity in the field (mostly white and Asian males, not that that's wrong, but representativeness and diversity are also important for AI systems to be robust and fair, and this overcompensation could abstractly point to the lack of diversity, counterintuitively). We are not threats (i.e. brown Latino and black men) guys, so let us in too haha :D! No need to be afraid of us! Lol. All jokes aside, I think the reaction was disproportionate, I mean, who would expect anything else when trying to control the potential perpetuation of harmful biases (e.g. white = smart, white = beautiful, white = relevant, white = better). As far as I know, there are no Latino or Black groups that claim supremacy or superiority over other ethnicities. Of course, we cannot generalize the behavior and attitudes of a subset of white people; how else do we prevent neo-Nazis and white supremacists from using "historical fact" or "historical representation" to make outrageous claims or spread stupid messages or propaganda; do we have to ruin their chances of using our global platform (from Google's perspective) for their purposes? Like I said, this was so perfect by Google (even if it was unintentional, and even if it abstractly points to issues of real diversity within Google, because maybe the situation was more like "don't look at us, we are not racist, and our AI shows this is true"). Too bad they did not take a more "Machiavellian" (not literally) approach to the issue and turn it against the critics, as they should have. Something like "this was obviously going to happen, and what else did you expect? we don't want a bunch of neo-Nazis and white supremacists using our platforms to create content that helps spread propaganda". Anyway, I don't want to trigger anyone, and if you are slightly triggered, it's probably just human nature, so I don't judge you too harshly, but evaluate your internalized ethical and racial biases and see where the trigger is coming from ('who does this person think he is? ', 'is he bringing his woke DEI agenda to AI now', 'is he even as smart as me', 'this is reverse racism', 'he sounds loud and disruptive', 'no', 'ugh', 'jerk', 'those Latinos', etc.) and see how you can let it go (acceptance of the bias is usually a start). Love. XOXO.
As a brown Latino man :D, the Gemini saga was so perfect and funny and complex from Google. I hope it will have some positive consequences in the way AI is developed. Hopefully things like this will help increase diversity in the field (mostly white and Asian males, not that that's wrong, but representativeness and diversity are also important for AI systems to be robust and fair, and this overcompensation could abstractly point to the lack of diversity, counterintuitively). We are not threats (i.e. brown Latino and black men) guys, so let us in too haha :D! No need to be afraid of us! Lol. All jokes aside, I think the reaction was disproportionate, I mean, who would expect anything else when trying to control the potential perpetuation of harmful biases (e.g. white = smart, white = beautiful, white = relevant, white = better). As far as I know, there are no Latino or Black groups that claim supremacy or superiority over other ethnicities. Of course, we cannot generalize the behavior and attitudes of a subset of white people; how else do we prevent neo-Nazis and white supremacists from using "historical fact" or "historical representation" to make outrageous claims or spread stupid messages or propaganda; do we have to ruin their chances of using our global platform (from Google's perspective) for their purposes? Like I said, this was so perfect by Google (even if it was unintentional, and even if it abstractly points to issues of real diversity within Google, because maybe the situation was more like "don't look at us, we are not racist, and our AI shows this is true"). Too bad they did not take a more "Machiavellian" (not literally) approach to the issue and turn it against the critics, as they should have. Something like "this was obviously going to happen, and what else did you expect? we don't want a bunch of neo-Nazis and white supremacists using our platforms to create content that helps spread propaganda". Anyway, I don't want to trigger anyone, and if you are slightly triggered, it's probably just human nature, so I don't judge you too harshly, but evaluate your internalized ethical and racial biases and see where the trigger is coming from ('who does this person think he is? ', 'is he bringing his woke DEI agenda to AI now', 'is he even as smart as me', 'this is reverse racism', 'he sounds loud and disruptive', 'no', 'ugh', 'jerk', 'those Latinos', etc.) and see how you can let it go (acceptance of the bias is usually a start). Love. XOXO.