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MhaloTov t1_je001ag wrote

Reply to comment by Art-Zuron in BBC News: Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC by Gigglemind

I’m sure you won’t be surprised to hear that exact thing has been done before in the past

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Art-Zuron t1_je01a0j wrote

Amazon's hiring algorithm once had to be turned off becsuse it became racist and sexist. It was automatically excluding non white and female sounding names.

Iirc, it was because the majority of applicants were white males. As a result, most of the hires were white males. The AI recognized this as meaning that white males were the ideal candidate and would hire them more, which caused a feedback loop.

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PMme10DollarPSNcode t1_je0anus wrote

There's also Google's infamous "Gorilla" Blunder: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/technology-33347866.amp

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Artanthos t1_je32oli wrote

8 years is an eternity in AI development.

Comparing a modern AI to something from that long ago would be the equivalent of taking someone with a masters degree and judging them by the work they did in kindergarten.

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Prcrstntr t1_je0ygz0 wrote

The gorilla problem is not a simple one to solve.

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