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I suppose 'bias' is the new word for "basic historic accuracy". I can get curious about other peoples without forcibly promoting them at the expense of my own Western and British people and culture. This 'anti bias' keyword injection is a laughably bad, in your face solution to a non-issue.

I lament the day 'anti-bias' AI this terrible is used to make real world decisions. At least we now know we can't trust such a model because it has already been so evidently crippled by its makers.

Comment · 2 years ago

From one of the Twitter threads linked above:

> they insert random keyword in the prompts randomly to counter bias, that got revealed with something else I think. Had T shirts written with "diverse" on it as artifact

This was exposed as being the case with OpenAI's DALL-E as well - someone had typed a prompt of "Homer Simpson wearing a namebadge" and it generated an image of Homer with brown skin wearing a namebadge that said 'ethnically ambiguous'.

This is ludicrous - if they are fiddling with your prompt in this way, it will only stoke more frustration and resentment - achieving the opposite of why this has been implemented. Surely if we want diversity we will ask for it, but sometimes you don't, and that should be at the user's discretion.\

Another thread for context: https://twitter.com/napoleon21st/status/1760116228746805272

Comment · 2 years ago

All hail our beneficent global bureaucracy! Filled with smart people who care deeply about our freedom and individual wishes. Now if I could just contact one of its accountable elected representatives to voice some concerns...

Comment · 2 years ago

Finally someone else will do the window twitching snitching for me.

Comment · 2 years ago

"Inclusive" but meaningless.

The Georgian calendar (at least in the numbering of years) is a Christian construct, and it therefore makes sense to name year 0 after the year of Christ's birth. Whether or not one acknowledges his lordship or whatever, you are still operating in the Western tradition which is impossible to understand without Christianity.

It's just petty power tripping. Some people have that need to feel superior by swapping the dating system to something meaningless and arbitrary. What makes this era "Common"? Presumably the birth of Christ, since that's still when you are setting the origin of years. So the rename is utterly pointless. It's still A.D and should be referred to as such.

I'd have more respect if these revisionists went full Jacobin and plonked Year 1 down as some new date, and named the calendar after something new.