The algorithms that detect hate speech online are biased against black people

[Aghori]

There is no such thing as "hate speech". It's just people getting offended over words.

 

[Slootvreter]

 

[Jola]

I wonder what these "US algorithms" would have to say about Malema's utterings ???

Maybe call 911 and SWAT ?

 

[Lucas Buck]

There are also blacks who say that blacks can't be racist for some reason. They then say racist things assuming that they're not being racist.

 

[Flanders]

N-word whaaaa?

N-word pleeez.

 

[TysonRoux]

Racist IT people.

 

[SaiyanZ]

Cause if they say white man or white people too much they apparently get banned from facebook (I was never given the context they say white in).

Also, google is racist cause if you search for squatter camps in sa apparently all you get are white squatter camps.

Anyway, that logic and "blacks can't be racist" is why I left.

Yeah just had a look. Almost every picture is of a poor white person in a squatter camp.

squatter camps - Google Search

www.google.com

 

[Jabulani22]

There is constant crying over things being racist because whites were involved in the developement , S.A.T scores , IQ tests , AI , biologic research ,etc .
Either there are a shed load of very educated people in a wide variety of research fields who are all in on some grand conspiracy or maybe just maybe we have differences which should be celebrated and not hidden even if it shows us to be "weaker" to a fellow man of a different race.

 

[krycor]

But, in reality, there is a reason why these automated programs pick up more racial hate from one group. I doubt it is being manipulated for "just doing it".

You clearly have zero technical inclination if you think that’s true. I actually can’t stop lmao at this comment.

Please do the world a favor and never take part in AI dev.

 

[R13...]

Cause if they say white man or white people too much they apparently get banned from facebook (I was never given the context they say white in).

Also, google is racist cause if you search for squatter camps in sa apparently all you get are white squatter camps.

Anyway, that logic and "blacks can't be racist" is why I left.

That's odd reasoning. There are groups on Facebook with "white" this or that fighting for white rights on Facebook and they don't seem to be banned.

 

[Nerfherder]

You clearly have zero technical inclination if you think that’s true. I actually can’t stop lmao at this comment.

Please do the world a favor and never take part in AI dev.

AI can't pick up nuance. That's one of the main issues with it.

So it can be manipulated but that its not what is happening here (IMHO). You wont be manipulating an AI bot to ban you.

Issue 1: AI can't really tell the race of a person, yes a complicated image scanning bot can but that isn't being used here. Hence the Bot is truly objective.
Issue 2: People can be critical of their own race, the AI can't detect that. It will see that as racism.
Issue 3: People feel they have the right to have unhinged criticism of other races because of the past.

So here a human being would see comments from a black person and brush them aside but a computer will not.

 

[3WA]

All of the below would be racist from a white personal but passable from a black person. It’s probably comments like these that trigger the AI

Black parents moer their kids.
Black people need to do more to grow the township economy.
Black men need to step up and protect our sisters.
If you want to hide something from a black person, put it in a book (I think Chris Rock first said that one, don’t flame me).

Comments like this get made because black people think about being black more than whites people think about being white. My whites friends never post adverts encouraging me to support some random small business because they’re white.

 

[Knyro]

It's just words bro.

 

[Moosedrool]

Does the algorithm cater in that many black people in the USA use the N word quite often?

Edit: Oh never mind. It's largely the reason for the statistic.

This is in large part because what is considered offensive depends on social context. Terms that are slurs when used in some settings — like the “n-word” or “queer” — may not be in others. But algorithms — and content moderators who grade the test data that teaches these algorithms how to do their job — don’t usually know the context of the comments they’re reviewing.

 

[wbot]

Also, google is racist cause if you search for squatter camps in sa apparently all you get are white squatter camps.

What the hell? Just had to check this for myself. Not a single black person in any of the pics I saw.

Then I found this ridiculous explanation from google: https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/white-people-in-squatter-camps-google-responds-15468240

 

[AstroTurf]

Just thought I would add this for the lelz...

 

[Ragnarök]

Google White couples , then Google black couples , look at the images.

This is just more Propaganda , for even more control over what white people can do

 

[wbot]

I just googled black squatter camps, black people in squatter camps etc etc......

 

[wbot]

Google White couples , then Google black couples , look at the images.

This is just more Propaganda , for even more control over what white people can do

Google gave another ridiculous explanation for that as well:

https://www.digitalinformationworld...e-search-results-black-white-couples.html?m=1

 

[Lupus]

I just googled black squatter camps, black people in squatter camps etc etc......

Yup well if you keep reading stories about things and it gets hits it will be what Google presents.