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Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

#51

Sometimes spurious usage of machine learning is "cute" and can be massaged by its implementer to come across as a valid instance of more art than science. Other times, it manages to let people who want to play with off-the-shelf libraries muddy the waters of what really comprises a quite difficult specialization. Other times still, it helps to reinforce some of the more atrocious biases of its source material and hol…

> Sometimes [...]. Other times, [...]. Other times, [...].

> Your project has managed to both.

Which two? Or did you mean, “all three” rather than “both”?

Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

#52
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It gave me 1. Be Black 2. Get Welfare 3. Ask people to roast you. Fully-automated racism.

> Fully-automated racism.

I'm not sure what else one would expect from an automated “roasting” whose input is a photo.

It's not like it's working from a bio or CV.

Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

#53
post #6

It gave me 1. Be Black 2. Get Welfare 3. Ask people to roast you. Fully-automated racism.

> Fully-automated racism. I'm not sure what else one would expect from an automated “roasting” whose input is a photo. It's not like it's working from a bio or CV.

    > your hair is dumb and your glasses make you look like a frog
vs

    > you're black, so you must be on welfare

Re: Show HN: RoastMe.io – A neural network that has learned to insult

#56

I am of Indian origin, I got: "Uh yeah, let me get 20 on pump 3 please. Thanks goopta." "You look like you date rape goats." "Sorry you got in trouble for making that clock." Automated racism! :o

I'm of Indian origin, too, but only one of my three comments was related to my skin colour:

'We all know you work in a call center in India. Thank you for writing roastme on the back of your I.T paper work. Get back to work "Steve".'

The others were generic as far as I could tell.

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