Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by wizzwizz4 on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:05PM
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> and obviously the connotation there is that skin colour is intrinsically linked to culture
No, the "intrinsically" connotation is not there. Read any book (or Wikipedia article) on the subject, or at least explain your reasoning in enough detail that someone can explain to you why you're wrong.
(I do agree that the AI bots were farcical.)
The thing that I feel that this silly AI bot draws into sharp contrast is the idea that there can simultaneously be "asian/white/black culture" - as a generalised thing, not a person's experience in a neighbourhood or a country, literally just "white/black/asianness" (or whatever), and obviously the connotation there is that skin colour is intrinsically linked to culture, but then we expect people to pretend that skin colour has no correlation.
You can't have it both ways, it's a contradiction.
And here we have, err, a computer program, or the output of one, pulling in all of this stuff and claiming that it has a culture based on experiences of being a skin colour that it doesn't and can't even have.
It's just madness on every level!