'I Lost Everything': California Photographer Blames AI Bias for Instagram Ban | KQED
'I Lost Everything': California Photographer Blames AI Bias for Instagram Ban | KQED
An LA-based photographer says his Instagram account that documents 1980s cholo and African American street culture has been banned repeatedly due to racial bias.
When a machine moderates content, it evaluates text and images as data using an algorithm that has been trained on existing data sets. The process for selecting training data has come under fire as it’s been shown to have racial, gender and other biases.
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The problem isn't AI itself, it's that comapies are willing to do that and then fire any customer support or human you could ever talk to. They let their automod ruin people's lives and accounts, then barricade themselves, impossible to reach.
Similarly, applications processes, school to employment.
ENTRY LEVEL POSITION [Insert job title]
Requirements:
- 10+ Years in a similar environment
- 2+ Years of management experience
or
You apply and literally never get any form of anything back besides a confirmation email "thanks". That was the absolute most annoying, demoralizing shit when I was searching for a job post school. I tumbled around 2 contract positions and finally have landed somewhere that I love, but fuck me was it hard on me mentally to keep farming out applications for basically a year, and hear back (I dont care if its a no, i just want some form of an answer!) less than 2% of the time
Been at this for almost a year now, wish me luck
Honestly (this is cliche as fuck) but keep at it. I think the contract positions I took helped me build a slightly stronger resume than just having worked highschool/college jobs, even though they were not directly in my intended field. I am a chemical engineer by education, and worked 2 contract jobs in "Product safety & Regulatory Compliance" (which I hated btw). I was afraid that it would essentially lock me into a field that I really had no interest in. This was not the case I discovered. I now have a job as a process engineer in a steel mill and absolutely love everything that I do. IIRC when they contacted me for the interview for this job, I straight up had forgotten I had applied because I had sent so many out. I believe I had applied multiple months prior before they ever even reached out. With how tight the labor market is currently (in the U.S.) I am seeing a lot of places have more legitimate "entry level" requirements. For example, my mill dropped its "prior industrial site experience" requirement
Yes, like that except… You got confirmation emails? I believe that’s the exception, I’m my area.
Why let a company be in a position to ruin ur life in the first place? It's like putting ur balls in a Crocs mouth.
Well, it's kinda what society forces us to do. There's not exactly much of an alternative to interacting with companies for most things.
Whether it's you livelihood, you home, your car, insurance, whatever
Don't kink shame!
Exactly. The real problem is lack of human oversight, and lack of a way to contact someone.
And these days, even if you manage to get someone they'll be some call center in India or Philippines that are only there to help with faq-level things and otherwise politely tell you to fuck off. They can't actually do anything.