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caraianellisande · 21 days ago

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There's a paper being presented at a brazillian symposium about discrimination against AAVE(specifically in automated moderation tools). Which is a very real thing and worthy of studying.

But this study was made by brazillian people. Which is incredibly funny to me. (It's because they wanted to study discrimination in moderation tools and most of the data available was in English).

#very interisting paper #but very weird to see at a brazillian symposium #presented in portuguese #unfortunatly this study was conducted by people who haven't studied humanities since high school #so their conclusion was #AAVE is under represented in data bases used to train these tools #and not #racism #which i'm pretty sure is the real reason #the problem isn't that there's not enough AAVE examples in the training models #it's because the ones that do exist are classified as toxic language by the people training the AI #again bc racism #i'm not making up this conclusion out of thin air btw #if the problem was under representation #it would be fixed by tools used to balance out data bases #which are part of the AI development process #you don't feed the tool raw data #you process it first #so either it's racism bc the developers didn't bother to do this for AAVE #or bc they presented AAVE as toxic language when feeding it to the AI #and this is evem STEM students need to take humanities classes

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