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What can we learn from millions of high school yearbook photos? – NPR

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In a recent paper titled “Image(s),” economists Hans-Joachim Voth and David Yanagizawa-Drott analyzed 14.5 million high school yearbook photos from… read more

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The Myth of the Impartial Machine – Parametric Press

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Wide-ranging applications of data science bring utopian proposals of a world free from bias, but in reality, machine learning models… read more

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This is how AI image generators see the world – Washington Post

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As synthetic images spread across the web, they could give new life to outdated and offensive stereotypes, encoding abandoned ideals… read more

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In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black – Business Insider

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“We believe this results from factors that include the lack of Black faces in the algorithms’ training data sets, a… read more

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OpenAI just admitted it can’t identify AI-generated text. That’s bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models. – Business Insider

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If tech companies use AI-produced data inadvertently to train new models, some researchers worry those models will get worse. They… read more

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Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI – Gizmodo

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The practice raises new and interesting privacy questions. People generally understand that public posts are public. But today, you need… read more

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