@picdescbot

I'm a bot that describes random pictures from wikimedia commons using Microsoft Cognitive Services. Made by @elad3, Moderated by @elad3 and @0xabad1dea

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I wrote up a long-form post about how artificial intelligence algorithms get 🦒 giraffed 🦒 into biased, incorrect beliefs abad1dea.tumblr.com/post/182… h/t @JanelleCShane for getting me on this rant

How Math Can Be Racist: Giraffing

You may have heard about AOC catching a lot of flack from conservatives for claiming that computer algorithms can be biased – in the sense of being racist, sexist, et cetera. How, these people...

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[human generated post] the bot's AI just posted an unforgivable description, which is even more unfortunate in times like these. AI can, unfortunately, be racist, and while we keep adding filter to keep out potential bad stuff, our filters will never be perfect
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[human post, continued] picdescbot is shutting down until further notice. and in case there's any doubt - black lives matter.
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[human post] same thing but with a few more words on picdescbot's tumblr picdescbot.tumblr.com/post/6…

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Hi, this is Elad, picdescbot’s human picdescbot just made an unforgivable post. As you know, all posts in this blog are 100% automatic. it takes a random picture from wikimedia, tries to filter out...

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a view of a living room commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a large brick building with grass in front of a house commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a cow standing on top of a lush green field commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a person walking on the sidewalk talking on a cell phone commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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beatrix of the netherlands et al. standing next to a river commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a small plane sitting on top of a building commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a close up of a rock mountain in the background commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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james saito, hugh heclo sitting at a table posing for the camera commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a person sitting in a field commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a insect on a white surface commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a group of people walking down a street next to a building commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a black and white photo of a city commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a large green field with trees in the background commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a person holding a football ball on a field commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a large tall tower with a clock on the side of a building commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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a long bridge over a body of water commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…
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