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is this a special case? Is this the one time somebody built a projection model in which the assumptions really drove the output? No, it's the only way it can be. There's no other way it can be. In the real world the assumptions that the study people put into it determines the output. That's the opposite of science. It's the opposite. You can't be more opposite than the people sitting in a room deb…
← Previous segment →ock photos that you could use with a license approval. And every now and then I'll use one of those for my posting on social media. So I wanted to look for a picture of a dumb person. You know, would be a good picture for it. So I went there and I searched within iStock, and this is a Getty company, they own it.
And I looked for... Do you think there were any issues with the diversity, the way they handled the diversity? So it was a page of morons, but they weren't all the same. Now I hope this doesn't kick me off here, but let me show you some of the pictures. See if this works.
First of all it was almost all white people, but there was one black person on the page. And you think to yourself, how'd they handle that? How are they going to have diversity in a result for dumb people? It's going to be pretty hard. But here's how they handled it. There were a bunch of white people shown, and I think a few Asians. And here's a white person here. He is drinking, has crazy eyes, and he's got weird teeth and everything. He's like, ah, not doing too well.
Now this was typical. There were lots of white people looking like morons. But then here's the sensitive part. They also have a picture of a black man that comes up in the search. Now how do you think they handled that? So here's their image of a black person, which is funny because he looks more like a scientist or a lawyer. He's g
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ot a smart expression, well dressed. The difference is hilarious. I mean this, if I had to guess, I would say almost certainly college educated, looks like he's doing pretty well, good looking, smart looking guy, smart eyes, smart face. All right, well just pointing that out. I don't think iStock images is going to last more than a year because AI should pretty much put them out of business. And…
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