Gregory Lynn: We’re not even a quarter of the way through this century and the candidates for trash fire of the century are really stellar.

I literally warned y'all about exactly this kind of harmful outcome from GPT integrations, & even told you *why/how* it'd happen. And if it's showing in résumé sorting, then bet it's about break as having been happening in patient portals & police reports & lending application sorters & on & on & on

“UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the ‘Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award’ — lower than the same resumes without those honors and credentials.”

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improvewww.washington.edu UW researchers found that ChatGPT consistently ranked resumes with disability-related honors and credentials — such as the “Tom Wilson Disability Leadership Award” — lower than the same...

Mad they won't let me load gifs here, because we clearly need this one. (I was trying to post it to another topic earlier today, so had it handy.) It's early to call it, but AI is gunning to be one of the biggest trashfires of the 21st century.

We’re not even a quarter of the way through this century and the candidates for trash fire of the century are really stellar.

I’ve spent half the morning shopping for just a toaster. Appliances ratings are just a trash fire. How can I have confidence in AI when they can’t even build a decent countertop toaster?

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