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Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by int_19h on Saturday January 04, 2025 @11:52PM (#42599863)
What they're saying is that the odds of such a combo are far less than 1 in 28 IRL.
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Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by notavalleyman on Sunday January 05, 2025 @10:01AM (#42602163)
How did you determine that?
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Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by int_19h on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:58PM (#42604524)
I'm not OP and I have no idea what the actual odds are. But, well, only 15% of Americans are black to start with, and obviously only half of those are women - and at that point we're already down to 1 in 14. So, unless every other black woman is a queer mom, there's no way it's 1 in 28.
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Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by notavalleyman on Sunday January 05, 2025 @10:35PM (#42607394)
If you were trying to mimic a distribution of Instagram users, and you rolled the dice 28 times, it's not unreasonable that this combination of traits could be expected one twenty eighth of the time.

This is birthday paradox logic, not census logic

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Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face... by Bobbyddxxd on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:48AM (#42620924)
A birthday is only one metric that the people in the school share. This is five variables.. So no..
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