Black Mental Health Is Basically Ignored By AI Models

Large Language Models, colloquially called Artificial Intelligence by companies selling rebranded autocomplete tools to other companies and the public, can automate a lot of entry-level projects but when it comes to anything more complex the flaws are quickly seen. When Black people using social media exhibit possible depression in their prose, a paper claims LLM/AI tools don’t detect it as easily as they do other skin colors. Before we go on a social justice rampage, let’s keep in mind that is in PNAS, the magazine that claimed an herbicide magically turns frogs ‘gay’ and that female-named hurricanes are more dangerous because of the patriarchy, and this was 800 Facebook posts. A high-quality LLM would use much larger datasets before going to the race card so we should be skeptical just like we are skeptical about Biden administration claims that mandating and subsidizing more electric cars will save us $100 billion in health care costs. Let’s get into it. This kind of claim comes up here and there. A while box Microsoft was called racist because the Xbox Kinect tool didn’t detect Black people as well as White. Having more people of color at Microsoft would’ve fixed that, went the social...