Hi, this is Elad, picdescbot’s human picdescbot just made an unforgivable post. As you know, all posts in this blog are 100% automatic. it takes a random picture from wikimedia, tries to filter out bad stuff, passes it to microsoft’s cognitive services for captioning, passes the caption through extra filter, and then posts it. Filters will never be perfect, but they’re important, because AI can be racist. in this case, it was racist. and the filters missed it and it got posted. This is ...
