Attention @black_in_ai, @TaelurAlexis, @ModFigsPodcast.
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RT @osazuwa
An image of @BarackObama getting upsampled into a white guy is floating around because it illustrates racial bias in #MachineLearning. Just in case you think it isn't real, it is, I got the code working locally. Here is me, and here is @AOC.
https://twitter.com/osazuwa/status/1274444300894572546

@peterdrake This entire thread is quite fascinating, I highly recommend reading it.

@peterdrake I think this is the referred image

@realcaseyrollins @peterdrake most neural networks that process the photos of real people can't work with anyone who is not an european and who wear glasses. It just messes up with NN which never seen that or not trained enough.

I'm not a scientist but I'm not sure how this can be solved technically. But I guess it would an interesting and game changing paper if somebody started to research this.

@a1batross @realcaseyrollins @peterdrake So what you're saying is that AI is racist?

@blight @peterdrake @realcaseyrollins I doubt it's racist but yes, we all look different and NNs just can't remember it yet. Or they wasn't trained for that.

Luckily, all NN stuff is mostly at research level. It would a lot funnier to see when corporations will not train their AI on all kind of people: black, mongolian, australian and so on. That would be a nice chance to call them on court.

@a1batross @blight @peterdrake heh heh

@realcaseyrollins @blight @peterdrake why tf not?

I mean, someone should have a responsibility on AI. How can you scare the computer? Delete the model? I doubt it's trained to care.

@a1batross @blight @peterdrake I would love to see this happen. somebody is sure to be this irresponsible with their AI