IIRC the technology industry has moved away from master and slave terminology, is this still true, and could that get someone blocked?
YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
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Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#62“ The researchers now suggest that social-media platforms should incorporate chess language in their algorithms to avoid future incidents like this.” Or maybe don’t automate banning YouTube channels via nebulous black boxes? Or can advertisers stop being afraid of anything and everything?
Bear in mind what we have here is an example of the cutting edge of AI in its real world use. It doesn't exactly inspire faith in AI if some of the best is this thick when it comes to making decisions that would be incredibly basic for a human of even below average intelligence.
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#63“ The researchers now suggest that social-media platforms should incorporate chess language in their algorithms to avoid future incidents like this.” Or maybe don’t automate banning YouTube channels via nebulous black boxes? Or can advertisers stop being afraid of anything and everything?
> nebulous black boxes Probably a nitpick, I think you mean "opaque black boxes", you can see things through a nebula.
@teh_klev:
>> nebulous black boxes
> Probably a nitpick, I think you mean "opaque black boxes", you can see things through a nebula.
Your comment has been modded into invisibility :[
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#64Amadgator is a one of the top chess youtubers, after carlson and hikaru. They should have a human-check placed by channel size - if for nothing else just to not get bad PR like this.
Gotta include Gotham in that mix (personally I'd rate Gotham over Amadgator).
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#65So, assuming YouTube makes some manual adjustments to their algorithm to not flag/ban chess content, I wonder if actual hate speech will start pretending to be chess content in order to avoid detection.
Wow that would be comically stupid and pointless.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
You kid but i've received 2 pull-requests on my open-source project, which only goal was to replace "Blacklist" with "Blocklist" in the app preferences. I don't receive many PRs. This is a real trend.
Political correctness run amok! My company has now official guidelines that discourage 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' in new features, but I wonder how long before they make everyone go back and refactor these names. Git 'master' branch derangement is another example of this BS.
See if any of them have attainted a Masters degree ;)
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#67Isn't the biggest structural problem with ML that it can't explain how it came to a specific conclusion?
Anyone knowledgeable on this subject?
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny thing is, since nobody ever submits PRs to change it in the opposite direction, even one person going around on GitHub would be virtually guaranteed to eventually change all of them.
even one person going around on GitHub would be virtually guaranteed to eventually change all of them It only took one complaint from someone in Canada to get Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" cut in half on SiriusXM for an entire continent. (Though you can still hear the full version on the deep tracks channel).)
they cut it in half rather than just bleep the "F" word?
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
You kid but i've received 2 pull-requests on my open-source project, which only goal was to replace "Blacklist" with "Blocklist" in the app preferences. I don't receive many PRs. This is a real trend.
Political correctness run amok! My company has now official guidelines that discourage 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' in new features, but I wonder how long before they make everyone go back and refactor these names. Git 'master' branch derangement is another example of this BS.
My company has mandated all of this. Change blacklist and whitelist, change the git master branch name, don't use master-slave, there's a list of "racially charged" terms and the replacements we're supposed to use.
It's all a corporate virtue signal mask so they can lay people off and increase exec compensation and still claim to have some moral high ground.
Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Political correctness run amok! My company has now official guidelines that discourage 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' in new features, but I wonder how long before they make everyone go back and refactor these names. Git 'master' branch derangement is another example of this BS.
See also: Master and slave in device controllers.
That one's a bit more understandable in that it's actually referencing a master/slave relationship. "Master" as in "master copy" is... not that.