A Stanford Study Exposes Massive Racial Bias in AI Hiring Tools Used by 90 Percent of Businesses

https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/stanford-study-exposes-massive-racial-bias-in-ai-hiring-tools-used-by-90-percent-of-businesses/91352321

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WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 55 pts · 62d

eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 38 pts · 62d

Yes, this is known as "the point".

Accountability sinks are the point.

Patrikvo@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 62d

That's genious actually, have a company provide an app build on some LLM and provide this as a Saas to its clients. Client does his unethical and criminals activities through the app. If they get caught, they point to the app builder. Once the app builder has too many lawsuits going, they close the company, start a new one, update the name and logo on the app and repeat.

ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 13 pts · 61d

Well yeah, they were trained off of data with massive racial hiring bias.

Garbage in garbage out.

ji59@hilariouschaos.com · 11 pts · 62d (2 replies)

That's not a bug, that's a feature

/s

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 8 pts · 62d (1 reply)

Unironically, though. The major models are from China and the USA, neither of which are well known for a history of racial harmony.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d

Am American and white. Was complaining about racism in this country to my Chinese boss. He responded, "what racism? You American. You don't know racism. You have racism here as a hobby. Go to China we show you real racism."

I still don't know how to respond to that, and that was 15-16 years ago.

arin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 62d

No wonder i don't even get phone interviews anymore

replicat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d

I'm white but my name is unusual and foreign looking. I wonder how that plays out?