{"id":843,"date":"2022-10-05T23:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2022-10-05T23:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:15:03","slug":"no-quick-fix-how-openais-dall%c2%b7e-2-illustrated-the-challenges-of-bias-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/2022\/10\/05\/no-quick-fix-how-openais-dall%c2%b7e-2-illustrated-the-challenges-of-bias-in-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"No quick fix: How OpenAI&#8217;s DALL\u00b7E 2 illustrated the challenges of bias in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2022-07\/220727-dall-e-ai-racism-gender-bias-2x1-cs-de0351.jpg\" alt=\"Photo illustration of warped faces on scanned paper.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An artificial intelligence program that has impressed the internet with its ability to generate original images from user prompts has also sparked concerns and criticism for what is now a familiar issue with AI: racial and gender bias.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while OpenAI, the company behind the program, called DALL\u00b7E 2, has sought to address the issues, the efforts have also come under scrutiny for what some technologists have claimed is a superficial way to fix systemic underlying problems with AI systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe common thread is that all of these systems are trying to learn from existing data,\u201d Shah said. \u201cThey are superficially and, on the surface, fixing the problem without fixing the underlying issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/no-quick-fix-openais-dalle-2-illustrated-challenges-bias-ai-rcna39918?fbclid=IwAR3YkLgofPftAuQ0A-qKpRL1AOgXQkJqBtyMgk3iYNYkWNvMpaEzJ1obW1c\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/no-quick-fix-openais-dalle-2-illustrated-challenges-bias-ai-rcna39918?fbclid=IwAR3YkLgofPftAuQ0A-qKpRL1AOgXQkJqBtyMgk3iYNYkWNvMpaEzJ1obW1c<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial intelligence program that has impressed the internet with its ability to generate original images from user prompts has also sparked concerns and criticism for what is now a familiar issue with AI: racial and gender bias.\u00a0 And while OpenAI, the company behind the program, called DALL\u00b7E 2, has sought to address the issues, the efforts have also come under scrutiny for what some technologists have claimed is a superficial way to fix systemic underlying problems with AI systems&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/2022\/10\/05\/no-quick-fix-how-openais-dall%c2%b7e-2-illustrated-the-challenges-of-bias-in-ai\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}