Facebook AI labels black men "primates"

[luv2fly]

Facebook users who watched a newspaper video featuring black men were asked if they wanted to "keep seeing videos about primates" by an artificial-intelligence recommendation system.

Facebook told BBC News it "was clearly an unacceptable error", disabled the system and launched an investigation.

"We apologise to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations."

It is the latest in a long-running series of errors that have raised concerns over racial bias in AI.

More at:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58462511

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. AI does what it's programmed to do.

[luv2fly]

2. It's okay though, Facebook apologized

So everyone who is okay with Facebook's insurrectionist-enabling, antivax behaviors can rest assured, it's all just an accident.

[PortTack]

3. Sure....just like the time b4 and the one before that..oh and sorry for any future flub ups!

[malthaussen]

4. Well, they're not wrong...

... but somehow, I doubt strict adherence to biological classification was their intent.

-- Mal

[LanternWaste]

7. It is in fact, wrong if it was applied to only one and only one demographic

Not merely in that it's an Argument from Fallacy (resulting in it being, by definition, wrong), but also predicated on the fallacy, Denying the Antecedent.

Wrong, yes. True? Arguable; but logic and reason do not pretend wrong and untrue (or right and true) are synonymous, but in fact, two separate constructs.

[MineralMan]

5. We are all primates. Every one of us.

We don't like to admit that, it seems, but humans are primates.

Of course, this AI thing was erroneously programmed, but that does not change the facts.

[dawg]

9. I'm proud of being a primate.

My large brain and grippy hands have proven very useful throughout the years.

And even though I'm in my fifties now, I can still climb a tree pretty well (so long are there are some low-hanging branches.)

[alphafemale]

6. And also BiPeds?

People really waste so much time when they are minimally educated.

[Justice matters.]

8. Time to ban Farcebook from accessing the Internet.

Just Do It. Banned. Disconnected. BYE.