Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
The Australian Radio Network has three main brands: KIIS, GOLD and CADA. Across nine stations, there’s one non-white presenter — and she’s a bot. Thy has been CADA Sydney’s weekday host for six mon…
Video version, with clips of the bot-DJ
Christ on a stick, they found a way to remove the black person from the “I’m not racist, one of my friends is black” dogwhistle.
I fucking can’t.
This sounds like the setup for a deeply fucked up comedy skit, or a Filthy Frank episode, or some shit like that, but nope, its real, its actually happened, the tech industry has invented a new and interesting form of racism.
Digital blackface was one of the first uses for genAI - turning white models or white voices "black" rather than hiring an actual black person
I am sensing a new standup comedy routine where a tablet pretending to be AI has a script to say some of the worse takes while claiming to be different people at different points. And the host dissects the responses with observational humor
"What the hell do you call that routine"
"the LEMMYVERSE!"
What does the race of the AI matter? Aren't they just social constructs?
social constructs
The problem with tiresome reactionary chuds trying to use the language of social justice to fight back is that it is very clear that they have no idea what the words mean, or much about the subject in question at all. There’s this pervasive idea in right-wing circles that you can just use a sort of faux-academic voice and make yourself seem more erudite…”I’ve put the scholar hat on, you have to take me seriously now”. They seem to think that how you talk is more important than what you think or say, and I suspect this is because they have nothing of any value or interest to say, and don’t really think much about anything further than “hurr, non-fascism bad”.
Let’s be charitable and assume you’re coming from a position of honest ignorance. Maybe lurk more, and learn the meaning of the words you’re using before you use them, so you don’t come across as a tedious reactionary doing a philosopher cosplay.
it’d be really weird you didn’t do even a tiny amount of reading into the research by DAIR and other organizations studying the interplay between AI and racism before shitting this post out into our thread, but I’ve seen your takes on transphobia and they’re somehow even more inane so please feel free to go fuck yourself
This is a disingenuous take: The title would be more apt if it just said, "Why hire anyone when you can just use AI?"
Trying to turn it into an example of minority oppression is a big stretch. AI will be used replace all races, sexes, and ethnicities of DJs. Not just minority DJs.
riskable, sibling, please take this as advice:
you should’ve stuck to things you know like the coefficient of friction of PETG, magnetic field interactions, or any other topic where your output isn’t this absolute buffoon shit
Trying to turn it into an example of minority oppression is a big stretch. AI will be used replace all races, sexes, and ethnicities of DJs. Not just minority DJs.
You are very close to seeing the problem here, which is: when one of us is oppressed, we are all oppressed.
okay look, I wanna be quite fair to this comment
and that starts with first apologising to you for what I'm about to do, which is engage in one of the worst social patterns and false logic modes of engagement that plagues forums
so I just gotta ask you: what the fuck made you choose that abominably shitty semi-clone of a rust emblem? good god. do better.
breathe
okay. with that out of the way. on to the meat.
I'm sorry you fuckin wot m8?
did you ever fucking pay any attention whatsoever to the details here? are you so fucking thoroughly up your own goddamn ass that you do not see the problem here?
holy fucking christ in a tapdancing duet with the devil, how did you think this post of yours was an okay one to make?
But, they just replaced the voice part of the job? Like, track selection was likely still done by a human somehow? Not sure what this is accomplishing overall.