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'I Lost Everything': California Photographer Blames AI Bias for Instagram Ban | KQED

When a machine moderates content, it evaluates text and images as data using an algorithm that has been trained on existing data sets. The process for selecting training data has come under fire as it’s been shown to have racial, gender and other biases.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11960814/i-lost-everything-california-photographer-blames-ai-bias-for-instagram-ban

'I Lost Everything': California Photographer Blames AI Bias for Instagram Ban | KQED

An LA-based photographer says his Instagram account that documents 1980s cholo and African American street culture has been banned repeatedly due to racial bias.

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Sep 13, 2023 at 5:16amWeb
Show thread∟⊔⊤∦∣≶Sep 13, 2023
Another strong argument for the fediverse.
Show threadRQGSep 13, 2023
Having largely undisclosed and privately owned platforms and algorithms dictate and decide our cultural exchange, spread of news, topics of discourse and other societally important interactions is such a horrible idea. I wish this was more obvious to the public so governments would end this. It divides sociaties, poisons public discourse and skews it with racist biases and towards hatred.
Show threadnxfsiSep 13, 2023

>FAGMAN trains ai to ban content about criminal gang activity

>FAGMAN ai bans journalist documenting criminal gang activity without regards to context because it is a machine

I’m gonna have to say that the ai is correct here. Rather it’s the entire approach to “content safety” that’s wrong.

Show threadstopthatgirl7Sep 13, 2023
Only it leaves pictures of the Hell’s Angels alone. Clearly there’s an issue here.
Show threadNougatSep 13, 2023

That's not just Hell's Angels. It's also Pagans and Outlaws.

More than one person got killed at that party.

Show threadsugarfreeSep 13, 2023
Diversify.
Show threadaardSep 13, 2023
It’s been shown over and over again for the last two decades that you can’t build a reliable archive on platforms outside of your control. Stuff like Instagram can be useful for trying to draw traffic to your own platform - but you always should treat those platforms as throwaway content.
Show threadmtcerioSep 13, 2023
I came here to say exactly this. IG and all the others are private companies, with their own terms and conditions one agrees on, and also agrees those terms can be changed by them at any time. Moderation of content is part of it. Deal with it, or don’t use them at all.
Show threadfriend_of_satanSep 13, 2023
This just reminded me that I need to delete my instagram account.
Show threadOrbit79Sep 13, 2023
The Instagram account is back now. I’m still banning Meta though.
Show threadtopinambour_rexSep 13, 2023

An important point, buried deeply in the article :

She said she has observed differential treatment across the social media platform, depending on the race of the subject in the image in question or who posted it.

“We’ve seen this time and again, Meta taking down content by and about people of color,” she said. “While similar content by and about white people remains up.”

Show threadconst_voidSep 14, 2023
Everything I don’t like is racism
Show threadstopthatgirl7Sep 14, 2023
Please explain why their photos were taken down but photos of the Hell’s Angels were allowed to stay up.
Show threadBruno FingerSep 15, 2023

Unfortunately those are not platforms meant for archiving, it’s in their own TOS they can take down any content or entire accounts at their own will and for undisclosed reasons. Also those platforms are subject to shitty practices like report abusing, yet another reason to put your content in danger.

Also unfortunately they are very attractive because of the influence a person can build with large network of followers in those platforms and how they can leverage that.

I don’t see a plausible solution or alternative. Instagram, Facebook, are the platform of the masses and where your content has the highest exposure. People today aren’t browsing “the web” like we used to back then. Instagram/Facebook are the internet.