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The world seen by the sexism of algorithms: they in bikini, they in a suit and tie

2021-02-16T23:34:18.910Z


A study collected by MIT shows how artificial intelligence in charge of autocompleting images mostly sexualizes women


Montage with supposed images generated by an algorithm from a photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.GETTY

The discrimination that algorithms cause is already one of the great problems of the virtual world.

Not only because those who program them are human with their own biases, but because machismo, racism and sexism are part of the natural learning of these mathematical formulas, on which more and more aspects of our lives depend.

A recent study ...

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