Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI

A lot of these are less "woah, AI is real bad and we need to be better about using it appropriately" and more "people need to stop being fooled by snake oil products that promise impossible things."

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Post by sumtechguy » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 8:15 PM UTC

pineman wrote: post #4

Is there a list of Nice-AI? Or generally unambiguously awesome tech?

82% 'unambiguously awesome tech' 12% 'bad stuff' 6% 'other'

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Post by Eyas » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

akersten wrote: post #5

A lot of these are less "woah, AI is real bad and we need to be better about using it appropriately" and more "people need to stop being fooled by snake oil products that promise impossible things."

You can blame users for expecting AI to solve everything, but that doesn't mean we give Engineers and Researchers free reign to package, publish, and distribute AI software that falls short of its promise (and introduces dangerous patterns along the way).

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Post by Simon321 » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 8:25 PM UTC

a lot of this is fear mongering

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Post by jl6 » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

convery wrote: post #2

Ehh.. the discrimination part sounds a lot like: "we had an AI look at statistics and it reported the patterns we choose to ignore".

AIs produce correlation which gets sold as causation.

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Post by owenshen24 » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

Doesn't seem like a well-curated list. Some of these, e.g. Uber's God Mode, don't even fall under the normal usage of the term "AI". Others, like Palantir or WeChat, seem to denigrate an entire company (rather than specific practices). And the racist chatbot thing isn't even an actual product, nor was it intentionally designed to be racist.