Reply to post: Re: Walking on eggshells

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

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Re: Walking on eggshells

"The problem is that what is considered relaxed banter amongst African-Americans, is considered racist when used by white people"

The problem here is that the definition of "racism" is totally fucked. And no-one seems to want to fix it, but instead define it even more fucked what it was.

True anti-racism is that anyone can use same words and it's either racism or not, but current situation is that what is "racism" totally depends, and I mean *totally* depends on who's using "the bad word".

That's totally fucked definition and needs to be changed to something else. I've no idea what it would be but this totally stupid clinging in single words definitely *isn't going to solve anything*, when actual racism happens on *intent level*.

Seeing the intent by looking the words alone is definitely outside of the capabilities of an AI. It's obviously way too hard for most humans also, so they see trigger word, brains shut down and yelling "that's racist!" starts.

Thoroughly stupid.

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