Distributed Future

Misogyny, pornography and malignant stereotypes in AI

We discuss auditing computational models of human behavior and the large-scale datasets they are trained on. Our guest gives examples of the consequences of a badly curated model.

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Transcript (by https://twitter.com/Betty_Bett_)

Guest: Abeba Birhane

00:46:09

Links:

https://twitter.com/Abebab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction
https://laion.ai/blog/laion-400-open-dataset/

"The future is out there, it just isn't evenly distributed - yet" :- William Gibson

In this podcast we interview interesting people who are doing new things that may give us some insight into the future.

Misogyny, pornography and malignant stereotypes in AI