Formula E team fires its AI-generated female motorsports reporter, after backlash: “What a slap in the face for human women that you’d rather make one up than work with us.”::px-captcha
Even this headline is spin! They fired no one, they just turned it off.
Reporter tries to respect new robot overlord. Is SLAMMED in comments.
Ai unemployment is at an all time high!
Well, I suppose >0 technically an all-time high for AI…
The affected hard drives were burned in a fire.
As a fan of Formula E, I can say with certainty that it’s the most faux-progressive sport I’ve ever seen.
I love the actual product, but loathe the attempts at feigning some sort of progressivism that always manages to put on blast the fact that its founder was a center-right Spanish politician.
Also, Hazel Southwell is literally right there.
It’s kind of hilarious as a sport. There’s so many Mario Kart inspired rules and, not even sure what to call them, but things like the boost when you drive over the special spot on the road.
People are often hard to work with. They need lunch breaks. They poop. They get tired and cranky. They get sick and break limbs skiing. They need home and family time.
So if every job wasn’t also starvation insurance (because as a society we don’t care much about our unemployed human population) every automated job would be a good thing.
So all we need is robust UBI and guarantees to everyone their basic needs will be met and met well (e.g. a home rather than a cot in a bunker) and then we can automate away.
We all know the sole purpose was that the fanbase can sexually harass her freely without actually having to deal with handling the misogyny.
I think the motive was money, but also that, sure.
Motive is still money
That is the most cynical take I’ve read all month
It’s not unlikely though. In my country there is a retailer that has a CG female mascot with a chatbot and it has been reported that a lot of people try sexting with it.
Slightly off topic, but the fact that I’m now seeing some Formula One/E news make it’s way onto Lemmy is a good sign to me that this place is starting to grow more and more.
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Worst part is, now whoever they hire…
you’d rather make one up than work with us
Yes? It’s nothing personal, human women, but once “having a pleasant feminine voice” is something that machines can do more efficiently than humans, why shouldn’t those machines be given the job?
You’ve got bigger problems than labour relations when “having a pleasant feminine voice” is the success criteria you use to measure the performance of a reporter.
I dunno, this logic sounds exactly like the fucked up logic that went on in the conference room that dreamed up this shitty idea only to have it face reality and be pulled on day one.
What else does a racecar reporter have to do? There’s only so many ways you can say the cars are going round in circles.
So should be pretty easy for a human to do then right? A lot easier than training an AI model to be able to spontaneously describe what’s happening on the race track at any given moment.
We’re not talking about replacing Bernstein and Woodward here…
As a fan of F1, and I casually watch FE, I’d much rather have human commentators, thanks.
Cheaper too I bet.
Sure, you just have to hire a team of AI engineers who’s job it is to train the AI on thousands of races and test it and test it and test it. Definitely cheaper than just hiring one human to be an announcer.
Not really. The real power of these LLMs is their ability to understand the written word, context and emotion then generate text based on it.
Bing AI uses search to get its sources and its training to summarise them. It doesn’t need to be trained on the specific things it’s generating off. It just needs to understand them.
Anyone who used ChatGPT to get information and not generate text was using it wrong. This is a very common misconception.
Brutal take.
What about all the dudes that don’t get a shot either way because they’re not an attractive woman? Is it a slap in the face to them?
I feel like AI haters really struggle to grasp the concept of an actually competent AI that can do something better than a human would. The counter-arguments always seem to come from the assumption that this will never be the case but that’s changing the subject.
If there is an AI doctor that has a proven track record of being better at diagnosing illesses than any human doctor then I’ll rather consult the AI. I’m fully aware how “unfair” it is for the human doctor but I don’t want to have to deal with misdiagnosis just because I wanted to show my support for human doctors and knowingly going for the inferior option.
Because we haven’t seen an AI yet that can do what a human can do but better.
