Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Mar 26, 2023

This is exactly what NOT to use generative #AI for. Here they are avoiding giving PoC jobs - and there are models to be hired, to be sure - and instead accomplishing “power rangers diversity” w/ pie charts measures and algorithms rather than just humanity. Shameful and lazy Levi’s.

“Levi's will start using AI-generated people in order to increase the diversity among its models.”

https://petapixel.com/2023/03/24/levis-to-use-ai-generated-models-to-increase-diversity/

Levi's to Use AI-Generated Models to 'Increase Diversity'

Characterized as a way for it to further its diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.

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Show threadkooostia16 (e/acc)Mar 26, 2023
@shanselman what's the issue with AI-generated people?
Show threadJMaverickJacks1Mar 26, 2023
@kooostia16 @shanselman Digital models, in and of themselves, are not the problem, but using digital models to put people out of work — black and brown people, especially— while claiming that this is diversifying your workforce and expanding its people of color is lying racism: a high-tech minstrel show.
Show threadkooostia16 (e/acc)Apr 1, 2023
@JMaverickJacks1 @shanselman why "putting people out of work"? Humans can easily adapt to new environments, work etc, models can also use AI to achieve much more than without it
Show threadJMaverickJacks1
@kooostia16 @shanselman Adapting to the “new environment” of being broke and unemployed in an industry that’s actively working to make you useless while pretending to care about your needs?🤨
Apr 1, 2023 at 3:25pmWeb
Show threadkooostia16 (e/acc)Apr 1, 2023
@JMaverickJacks1 @shanselman if it's actively working to "make you worthless", why not work actively to make yourself more useful?
Show threadJMaverickJacks1Apr 1, 2023
@kooostia16 @shanselman I do, and so do many other people, presumably including you, but billionaires with far more resources than you have are plotting your professional extinction faster than you can humanly respond. So, no matter what career you’re in, and no matter how smart and talented you think you are, someone is building AI to replace you, even if you’re an AI coder. When that replacement hits the market, then you can talk more knowledgeably about what to do