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'It seemed like a pretty straightforward exercise.
Arsenii Alenichev typed sentences like "Black African doctors providing care
for white suffering children" and "Traditional African healer is helping poor
and sick white children" into an artificial intelligence program designed to
generate photo-like images.
His goal was to see if AI would come up with images that flip the stereotype of
"white saviors or the suffering Black kids," he says. "We wanted to invert your
typical global health tropes."
Alenichev is quick to point out that he wasn't designing a rigorous study. A
social scientist and postdoctoral fellow with the Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global
Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative, he's one of many researchers playing
with AI image generators to see how they work.
In his small-scale exploration, here's what happened: Despite his
specifications, with that request, the AI program almost always depicted the
children as Black. As for the doctors, he estimates that in 22 of over 350
images, they were white.'
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
