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Filmmaker Exposes Eugenic Roots In Generative AI
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Director Valerie Veatch releases Ghost in the Machine, a documentary tracing generative AI's roots and modern bias, available March 26 to March 28 on Kinema and airing on PBS this fall. The film links present-day racist and sexist outputs from models like OpenAI's Sora to historical eugenics and statistical practices, and criticizes firms' dismissal of such harms.
Key Points
- 1Documents generative AI producing racist and sexist imagery, with artists reporting Sora's discriminatory outputs.
- 2Links modern model behaviors to historical eugenics and statistical practices originating with Francis Galton.
- 3Warns practitioners to scrutinize training data, model assumptions, and industry obfuscation to mitigate harm.
Scoring Rationale
Strong historical framing and industry relevance, but limited by single-source media reporting and modest new technical insight.
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