I was tweeting about another entirely different thread with the exact same situation not even a few hours ago.

When folks talk about technological racism and how algorithms are not coded with any thought to black & brown ppl whom they may negatively affect this is what they mean https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1307440596668182528">https://twitter.com/bascule/s...
Like... not even joking. Here’s the other thread concerning a black teacher on zoom where someone else randomly discovered the same thing when he posted to twitter. This isn’t a “Twitter only” thing.

You wouldn’t know a black person was involved if you didn’t click the pictures. https://twitter.com/jongraywb/status/1307428697629229056">https://twitter.com/jongraywb...
Like... nobody watched Minority Report and learned the lesson from Tom Cruise jumping around everywhere? Really?

There’s no excuse for the reliance on these algorithms to bend to this racist a slant unless the persons coding them have inherent biases ingrained when they do so.
So y’know — maybe they should look at themselves before touting this as the next best thing.

Also, let’s be honest — the next best thing almost always winds up being “the next best thing for folks who want to weaponize it” at this point

Just b/c you can doesnt mean you should.
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