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An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.
Language-generation algorithms are known to embed racist and sexist ideas. They’re trained on the language of the internet, including the dark corners of Reddit and Twitter that may include hate speech and disinformation. Whatever harmful ideas are present in those forums get normalized as part of their learning.
Researchers have now demonstrated that the same can be true for image-generation...
The South African covid-19 variant is proving to be a vaccine challenge
The news: Two new sets of vaccine results announced today suggest the South African variant of the virus is proving harder to vaccinate against. Novavax and Johnson & Johnson both announced that final-stage clinical trials showed their vaccines are effective at preventing illness—but that this efficacy dropped when dealing with the variant sequenced in South Africa, known as B.1.351. ...