Post AYWZroXRYq6o7AYCuG by clive@saturation.social
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 (DIR) Post #AYWZroXRYq6o7AYCuG by clive@saturation.social
       2023-08-08T15:05:54Z
       
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       A good piece in the Wall Street Journal -- this is a "gift" link so you can read it even if you don't subscribe -- on how AI-propelled image-editing tools are botching things when they're given a Black or Asian headshot: https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-ai-headshots-are-failing-women-of-color-e60a8a3?st=ypwida0v9ncyeta&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
       
 (DIR) Post #AYWlsSfZYMpS1rQbIm by derekbruff@mastodon.social
       2023-08-08T17:20:29Z
       
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       @clive This reminds of the “Shirley cards” that Kodak sent out to its one-hour photo shops in the 50s to calibrate their printers. The result was printers that did poorly with non-white skin… for decades. There wasn’t a non-white “Shirley” until the 80s. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/shirley-cards/
       
 (DIR) Post #AYWnb3gpNFmjXbqQJk by clive@saturation.social
       2023-08-08T17:39:46Z
       
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       @derekbruff Yes!When I researched the history of personal photography for Smithsonian a few years back, I remember one historian remarking that the problem of color cascaded on through tech:- lousy early film --> disproportionately few photos of Black Americans get taken --> perception that market is mostly white --> digital cameras are just as bad --> on early internet, digital pix are disproportionately white folks --> data used to train visual AI is disproportionately white --> etc
       
 (DIR) Post #AYWoQ4XHzIYQvyhy5I by clive@saturation.social
       2023-08-08T17:42:55Z
       
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       @nein09 gaaah!