Bias in AI (whatever the source or nature of the problem) is a real issue that needs addressing, but taking the relevant training data off of ImageNet seems like a perfect example of papering over a problem to avoid really confronting it. We will need to find ways to make AI programs than can see beyond the biases (about humans or otherwise) that will always exist to some degree in real-world data.
If the ImageNet contains bias that leads to embarrassing results- that’s fine! That give us a readily available toy instance of the problem to study. Taking that away could actively harm anti-bias research.
If the ImageNet contains bias that leads to embarrassing results- that’s fine! That give us a readily available toy instance of the problem to study. Taking that away could actively harm anti-bias research.