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
We all know the sole purpose was that the fanbase can sexually harass her freely without actually having to deal with handling the misogyny.
That is the most cynical take I’ve read all month
I think the motive was money, but also that, sure.
Motive is still money
“Mahindra Racing introduced, then quickly retracted, its use of a fake female motorsports reporter.”
In case anyone else wonders.
Even this headline is spin! They fired no one, they just turned it off.
The affected hard drives were burned in a fire.
you’d rather make one up than work with us
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?
Brutal take.
Cheaper too I bet.
Sure, you just have to hire a team of AI engineers who’s job it is to train the AI on thousands of races and test it and test it and test it. Definitely cheaper than just hiring one human to be an announcer.
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.
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.
So should be pretty easy for a human to do then right? A lot easier than training an AI model to be able to spontaneously describe what’s happening on the race track at any given moment.
We’re not talking about replacing Bernstein and Woodward here…
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.
As a fan of F1, and I casually watch FE, I’d much rather have human commentators, thanks.
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?
People are often hard to work with. They need lunch breaks. They poop. They get tired and cranky. They get sick and break limbs skiing. They need home and family time.
So if every job wasn’t also starvation insurance (because as a society we don’t care much about our unemployed human population) every automated job would be a good thing.
So all we need is robust UBI and guarantees to everyone their basic needs will be met and met well (e.g. a home rather than a cot in a bunker) and then we can automate away.
