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Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken

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Re: Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken

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Post by zac23or »

fluoridation wrote: post #547
zac23or wrote: post #498

Virtue signaling is a hell of a drug. I tried to explain to someone online that the word black has many meanings, not every use of black is about people. Oh man, in the end I was "taught" that just by not accepting his ideas I was a racist person. My experience with this type of person is very bad. They are ignorant people, defending points without understanding the points. They are very aggressive and work in packs.…

You mean to tell me that all this time black people were the reason the black plague, black mambas, and blacktop exist?

...and black hole...https://youtu.be/Hu2rluUb8ck

Re: Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken

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Post by nullc »

madamelic wrote: post #151
silicon2401 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the hypocrisy of radical leftists in a nutshell. They claim to fight racial thinking while in fact just making it more prominent than it's been in decades.

It's also what will cause the far right to succeed. The left eats its own rather than being patient or tolerant ("I shouldn't have to teach you!") to people who mean well, while the right allows people to fly way off the handle and still be within their tent because their tent expands to include increasingly extreme ideas.

Google is teaching people about wrongspeak with this new feature! it's on you if you don't want to obey!

Re: Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken

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Post by UncleMeat »

azth wrote: post #203
user3939382 wrote: post #108

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If we're going to play this game, I think dissuading people from using "mother" in the example of "motherboard" is offensive. Mothers are the source of human life on earth, and in that capacity are revered and honored. When we say motherboard, we're making an analogy that suggests the board's significance and universal connection to everything. To discourage the term as an analogy for things that are a universal sour…

It's the natural outcome of far leftist ideologies. People need to wake up and start rejecting this destructive ideology where a person is evaluated only based on their identity. I think MLK had something to say about that.

MLK explicitly supported affirmative action and other programs designed explicitly to benefit black people in order to make up for past discrimination. I suspect he would be tired of being used as a justification for absolute colorblindness.

Re: Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken

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Post by marton78 »

stefan_ wrote: post #560
mgraczyk wrote: post #141

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That one is in the public list. https://developers.google.com/style/word-list You're supposed to use "plug" and "socket" instead.

Haha jesus no wonder they added the "AI-powered" hints because who the fuck can be expected to keep track of all this nonsense? > hang, hung > Don't use to refer to a computer or system that is not responding [..] see Avoid unnecessarily violent language.

Oh, that's due to violence? I thought because it evokes phallic associations, as when someone is well hung.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

onepointsixC wrote: post #542
nicbou wrote: post #407

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It depends on who you write for. As a non-native, non-American speaker, I'd be happy to know if I'm accidentally offending the people I'm writing to.

But you aren't. Saying that "Motherboard" is offensive is basically misinformation.

I can't even imagine what the supposed offense is here?

Like, 'I identify both as a mainboard and male, your use of motherboard offends me'???

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Post by titzer »

krastanov wrote: post #23
mgraczyk wrote: post #9

In the article they use the example of "Motherboard" and "Landlord" and seem to suggest that these are areas where the Google AI is making mistakes or being overly strict. As a Google employee expressing my own opinion and observations of company culture, I can say that these are 100% not mistakes. Many Google employees are just so out of touch with the real world that they believe it is the duty of Google Docs to ch…

I am incredulous at the "mother" to "birthing person" requirement. I have seen one or two people with such prescriptive views on language but the vast majority of people I know consider it ridiculous. And I am in an incredibly "woke" social bubble.

This front of the culture war is an unwinnable quagmire that seems to elicit ever-increasing smarminess yet has no victory conditions.

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Post by [deleted] »

jchw wrote: post #533

Fun fact: the longest known distance between two points on Earth is the distance between Google product managers and ordinary people. To be less flippant, boy could I not give a shit less about the problem this feature is trying to solve. As I look outside, I try to imagine the idea of any of these people in my neighborhood, playing with their dogs, mowing their lawns, driving garbage trucks, potentially losing sleep…

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Post by Tao331 »

jchw wrote: post #533

Fun fact: the longest known distance between two points on Earth is the distance between Google product managers and ordinary people. To be less flippant, boy could I not give a shit less about the problem this feature is trying to solve. As I look outside, I try to imagine the idea of any of these people in my neighborhood, playing with their dogs, mowing their lawns, driving garbage trucks, potentially losing sleep…

> I really, really doubt almost anyone had racist or problematic visualizations in their mind.

Reminds me how we used to have Backlog Grooming meetings, but we had to change the name because apparently "grooming" is something pedophiles do.

Poor naive me, I thought it was something my parents- sorry, birthing persons- had done for their poodle when it was getting too shaggy.

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