so the various #AI plagiarism-as-a-service scams cannot make a convincing Kamala Harris"
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so the various #AI plagiarism-as-a-service scams cannot make a convincing Kamala Harris"
""We actually don't talk enough about how every AI just CANNOT replicate Kamala Harris," another user pointed out. "It's uncanny how failed the algorithm is at an AMERICAN (of South Indian and Jamaican heritage)."
https://futurism.com/kamala-harris-ai-image-generatorsh/t to @obeto cuz this reminds me of OK Cupid. remember them? this is just a chin-chin of a thread… 🧵
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to yes last edited by
OK Cupid was the true first social media dating site. Match.com was always ran by evangelicals (who been forever early adopters of internet media, btw). so that meant making sure the twain shall never meet.
that's were OK Cupid came in.
OK Cupid understood the melting pot assignment and that meant theirs was a younger, hipper, more diverse user base than Match and the other tech/media businesses ran by creepy christofascists…
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to yes last edited by
and it's because their whole business plan was to NOT be like Match, they used to publish a lot of demographics data on their user base.
at the beginning the data points were winsome and funny, but as their user base grew, so did the granularity of their reports.
and this is the one i remember vividly, first published in 2014.
Black People And Asian Men Have A Much Harder Time Dating On OKCupid | HuffPost Life
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/okcupid-race_n_5811840the first report said it was "Black People" but…
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to yes last edited by
even that framing was racist and misogynist. the truth has always been that Black women are the least sought after women on dating sites:
"Are the algorithms that power dating apps racially biased? | WIRED"
https://www.wired.com/story/racial-bias-dating-apps/but that's not the whole story, right?
the same report also said that Asian men, were the least desired men on those dating sites:
https://theconversation.com/asian-guys-stereotyped-and-excluded-in-online-dating-130855so the stereotypes of undesirable people are African & Asian looking women and men…
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to yes last edited by
which brings me to this somewhat unrelated detail that also popped up in the pop media/tech ether around the same time of the OK Cupid reports:
how Black actors, directors & producers had to work harder and sometimes fight for better photo/cinematic lighting:
"How Insecure Properly Lights Black Actors | Lifehacker"
https://lifehacker.com/how-insecure-properly-lights-black-actors-1803817079it's almost as if you aren't deemed beautiful and desirable, there's a whole world of technological beauty enhancers NOT developed for you…
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to yes last edited by
"Why the Myth That Dark Skin Is Harder to Photograph Persists | Allure"
https://www.allure.com/story/photographing-darker-skin-tonesbecause if you are not desirable, why make anything for you? you aren't lovable anyways.
why waste time on unlovable people? why look at them?
they —and by them i mean we and that means I— are not the definition of beauty.
which is why it took for Rihanna to start a makeup business for me to have foundation that matched my skin for the first time…
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to yes last edited by
How Rihanna’s Fenty Is Radically Inclusive
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/rihanna-fenty-inclusivity-body-diversitydo you know how many foundation colors for Black women and women sharing our complexions and hues she has?
40.
do you know how many Cover Girl, Loreal, Chanel, Revlon used to put out for us? at the most, 4. then MAC came out and stomped on their shit but it was too high end and too out of the reach of most women.
Rihanna fucked their shit up with FORTY FUCKING FOUNDATION COLORS and is now a billionaire… but there's more…
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to yes last edited by
the fact that AI cannot make a convincing Kamala Harris is more than the fact that surveillance tech is made by and for racist people:
Facial Recognition Software Struggles To Detect Dark Skin — Here’s Why & How - Mozilla Foundation
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/facial-recognition-bias/the fact of the matter is that, accuracy here is of very little import when it involves acknowledging the unique and lovable humanity of people you have decided aren't worthy of your desires and attention…