Enlarge / Eight images used in the study; four of them are synthetic. Can you tell which ones? (Answers at bottom of the article.) reader comments 47 with A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Science on Monday found that AI-generated faces, particularly those representing white individuals, were perceived as more real than actual ..
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Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 75 with Despite leading AI companies’ attempts to block users from turning AI image generators into engines of racist content, many 4chan users are still turning to these tools to “quickly flood the Internet with racist garbage,” 404 Media reported. 404 Media uncovered one 4chan thread where users ..
Enlarge / One of the Perl programming language’s best-loved nicknames is “the Swiss Army chainsaw.” The nickname also seems unfortunately applicable to Perl’s recent community discourse. reader comments 195 with 123 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Perl community is in a shambles due to disputes concerning its (nonexistent) Code of Conduct, ..
Getty Images reader comments 134 with 85 posters participating Share this story In July 2020, OpenAI launched GPT-3, an artificial intelligence language model that quickly stoked excitement about computers writing poetry, news articles, and programming code. Just as quickly, it was shown to sometimes be foulmouthed and toxic. OpenAI said it was working on fixes, ..
Enlarge / Sunset, over the Google empire. reader comments 152 with 86 posters participating, including story author Share this story A new report alleges that Google employees who report experiencing gender or racial harassment or discrimination routinely are told to take “medical leave” and seek mental health treatment—only to be shoved aside when they try ..
Enlarge / Amazon’s orange-yellow logo wall. reader comments 119 with 55 posters participating Share this story A senior manager at Amazon Web Services has filed suit against the company alleging race and gender discrimination, saying that she was underpaid, denied promotions, and sexually assaulted at the firm. Charlotte Newman, who is Black, began working at ..
Enlarge / The SUV currently known as a Jeep Cherokee. reader comments 299 with 131 posters participating Share this story It’s time for Jeep to reconsider calling its SUVs “the Cherokee” and “Grand Cherokee,” says Cherokee Nation Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. This marks the first time the Cherokee Nation has directly asked Jeep to stop ..
MrLonelyWalker | Getty Images reader comments 125 with 63 posters participating Share this story In today’s attention economy, platforms are megaphones and audiences are income. Shut off the megaphone and the income goes away. Bad guy go bye-bye. Throughout the last year, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and beyond have reckoned with their social responsibility not to ..
Enlarge / Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum addresses an audience on March 20, 2019 in Miami Gardens, Florida. Gillum’s campaign was targeted by racist robocalls in 2018. Getty Images | Saul Martinez reader comments 69 with 45 posters participating Share this story A neo-Nazi, white-supremacist robocaller who spread “xenophobic fearmongering” and “racist attacks on ..
Enlarge / Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters as seen in 2017. reader comments 170 with 92 posters participating Share this story Facebook today is, once again, theoretically ramping up enforcement against hate speech, this time with a new policy prohibiting Holocaust denial on the platform. The change is due to a “well-documented rise in anti-Semitism ..