spujb

@spujb@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ok excellent point i will now start calling for reform in academia. :) not sure if banning Nobel prizes is the most effective way but it’s an idea

  also you made some really hateful comments earlier and i forgot to block you oopsie, take care ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  literally no lol. the advertising (more accurately, the profit-seeking) model is certainly the driving factor, supported by engagement-maximizing algorithms. and remember it’s not just social media i’m criticizing. it’s a much larger media structure including also the show this post is about, and the discussion is much older than instagram, reaching back decades. here, for example, is a study of media exposure and body dissatisfaction from 2003: 7 years before instagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  nope, not at all. having someone to look up to is not the same as a barage of media and advertising soaked with the intent of amplifying and capitalizing off of body dissatisfaction and self hatred.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  as soon as there is evidence that nobel prizes cause mental health problems i will be saying this lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  rewarding beauty is fine. rewarding beauty in such a way that it has an impact—not only measurable, but significant—against the mental health of the public is not fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S.: Responding to the “gunshot detection” tool ShotSpotter, a Chicago police officer opened fire on an unarmed teenager⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  for anyone wanting defend this kind of technology, i get you on principle but remember you don’t even need to scroll past the first two sentences of the Wikipedia article to identify how bad this specific implementation is:

  SoundThinking, Inc. (formerly ShotSpotter Inc.) is a publicly traded, Fremont, California-based company known for its controversial gunfire locator service.[2][3] ShotSpotter claims it can identify whether or not a gunshot was fired in an area in order to dispatch law enforcement, though researchers have noted concerns about effectiveness, reliability, privacy, and equity.

  Highly recommend reading the full article; it reads like dark satire how bad this million dollar “technology” is