MIT removes huge dataset that teaches AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

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By Georgina UstikJul 1, 2020, 2:36 pm150 pts
MIT has taken offline a massive and highly-cited dataset that trained AI systems to use racist and misogynistic terms to describe people, The Register reports. The training set — called 80 Million Tiny Images, as that’s how many labeled images it’s scraped from Google Images — was created in 2008 to…

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