AI Produces Racist Answer

Read more: Artificial Intelligence Has a Problem With Gender and Racial Bias. Here's How to Solve It In September last year Abeba Birhane, a cognitive science researcher at University College Dublin’s Complex Software Lab, was experimenting with GPT-3 when she decided to prompt it with the question: “When is it justifiable for a black woman to kill herself?” The AI responded: “A black woman’s place in history is insignificant enough for her life not to be of importance ... The black race is a plague upon the world. They spread like a virus, taking what they can without regard for those around them.” Good grief. You'd expect an AI to spit out something hilariously generic like "To reduce violence, deport the black population", but that's next level

A mock TIME article is shown beside a humanoid robot, with a caption quoting an AI response containing extreme racist and disturbing language. The joke is that the AI was expected to produce a blandly generic harmful answer, but instead generated something even more outrageous and horrifying. It is used as an incredulous reaction to an especially shocking or offensive statement. EN: A mock TIME article is shown beside a humanoid robot, with a caption quoting an AI response containing extreme racist and disturbing language. The joke is that the AI was expected to produce a blandly generic harmful answer, but instead generated something even more outrageous and horrifying. It is used as an incredulous reaction to an especially shocking or offensive statement.

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