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
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
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.
We’re not talking about replacing Bernstein and Woodward here…
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.
Never really watched racing, have you…
Such a Brave Little Toaster.
Cheaper too I bet.
Not on TV. Female AI is for house and assistant chores only, like Siri and Alexa. At least no one’s ever complained about that before…
Worst part is if they made it a guy, they’d get more flack. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
It’s clear they need to make it a golden retriever with subtitles and the project can keep going.
It’s not reasonable to expect regular people to all have executive assistants. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. We’re talking about a job that a real person could perform, working for a multi-billion dollar company, not an AI that can mark stuff in your calendar for you.
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You do realize those voice assistants have male voices too? Just switch it over.
As for the reason why they are female by default, iirc they did some studies on it and it turns out people subconsciously trusted them less and especially men were likely to disregard their advice.
As a fan of F1, and I casually watch FE, I’d much rather have human commentators, thanks.
Brutal take.
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.
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?
Indeed, absurd argument (rather feeling) that should have no place in such a discussion. But it was no discussion. It was feelings making them cancel it because they want zero potential for bad news, regardless of how right they would be.
Image if translators argued the same about the various apps. Laughable.
Why are you even on Lemmy if you’re pro-AI-taking-people’s-jobs? Lemmy is a socialist forum.
Ah, sure sure.