MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars
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#2“...and nothing of value was lost.”
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#3This means that somewhere on the Azure cloud there is a resnet instance that only looks for confederate flags.
I am inspired to write it a haiku:
poor descent machine
seeking orange tradition
longs for better things
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#4Interesting that the Japanese rising sun flag is mentioned alongside the swastika and the stars and bars; the rising sun flag remains in contemporary use by the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force.
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#5I wonder if the AI team at Microsoft has built a Confederate Flag Detector. I'd be curious how they got the training data for that.
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#6Seems like the systemic oppression cuts against racism, not in favor of it.
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#7Honest question. For those of you happy that these censorship policies are being implemented by companies in reaction to pressure, do you believe that the ideal end-goal would be 'anti hate speech' laws like those of Germany?
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#8Honest question. For those of you happy that these censorship policies are being implemented by companies in reaction to pressure, do you believe that the ideal end-goal would be 'anti hate speech' laws like those of Germany?
Private company. I don't care. Jumping from Microsoft doing a thing about this to a law being passed restricting speech is quite the stretch and would be against the 1st.
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#9Honest question. For those of you happy that these censorship policies are being implemented by companies in reaction to pressure, do you believe that the ideal end-goal would be 'anti hate speech' laws like those of Germany?
This isn’t censorship.
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#10For those talking about AI models
> Microsoft will not automatically ban players that create designs with these controversial images; instead, the original designer will need to be reported by submitting a ticket.
Sounds like it's a manual process right now.