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

Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by ngngngng on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:40PM (#31130098)

"Fuck" and "badass" are relatively common in job postings in Utah. I assume it's because people from out of state are worried they'll join a company with a bunch of stiff Mormons so we need a signal to let them know that's not the case. Benefit #1 on the list is beer on Fridays.

Anyway, that's what scares me about this, I like language naturally evolving like it is in the above example, to address a specific communication need. I'm really not a fan of some remarkably privileged people using an insanely powerful company to coerce my language in whatever direction they see fit.

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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by seattle_spring on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:19AM (#31131604)

Relatively common? Can you share links to 2 examples?

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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by ngngngng on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:49AM (#31131753)

Yes but I’ll let you google search “Utah job postings badass” yourself

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Re:Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very ... by CrispinS on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:01PM (#31138510)

When I Google it, the first result is... your post, and none of the other results include the word.

Adding quotes to "badass" turns up (on the first page) a mechanics job posted in January, four hits for the same CNA job from over a month ago, and one hit for an administrative job, posted this month.

That doesn't seem like a lot of postings, certainly not enough to be considered an outlier.

Of course to verify that I'd have to do fifty Google searches and chart the data, which I don't really want to do...

I think you should, though, so next time you make such a dubious claim, you have the data to back it up. :)

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