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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found this page in like 5 seconds:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2490361/sports-heroes-who-served-baseball-great-jackie-robinson-was-wwii-soldier/

Military website.  About Jackie Robinson.  And his military service.[/quote]

The news article to which the OP links notes that the page was reinstated this afternoon. [/quote]

So then it hasn't been wiped, has it?  [/quote]

Nope.  Nor has any information about the Tuskegee Soldiers or the Enola Gay.  They were taken out by mistake initially and then replaced.  But sure, let's all "vomit" just to show our outrage.   :roll: [/quote]

There are many examples of images of POC being removed from government spaces. This is literally what you wanted. [/quote]

No, there are not.  And if they were mistakenly removed, they have been reinstated.  But please do keep up the hysteria and hyperbole.[/quote]

How could this possibly have been a mistake?  How was removing women and minorities from the NSA museum a "mistake?"  There should have been many, many people who saw the "mistake" before it happened and been able to say "wait, you're about to 'accidentally' do something!"  So the fact that these things keep happening tells me they are not mistakes but are actually intentional.  Like the AI that "mistakenly" removed Navajo talkers from the DOD website because it included the word "Navajo."  Someone (a person) had to tell the AI to remove anything with the word "Navajo."  That makes it intentional, not a "mistake."[/quote]

This is absolutely spot on.  Someone had to deliberately program the AI in a certain way. Terms like "women", "girls", "disability", "LGBTQ", and so on are being flagged for scrutiny and removal, but notice how the list doesn't include words like "men", "white", "Christian", or "heterosexual".

The fig leaf they're using is "we want everything to be gender and race neutral", but this programming is the furthest thing from neutral. When AI code targets, erases, excludes, and bans specific groups, that's an ideological statement.  When straight white men are left alone by programmers because someone has decided they're the default human, that's an ideological statement.  Just because a machine is performing an action, that doesn't make that action unbiased.  Humans had to tell the machine what to do.

Even if some of the high visibility pages get declared an oopsie (mainly due to public outrage) and walked back, the fact that they were removed at all is reprehensible.  The deeper Orwellian damage remains.  It isn't just about erasing past contributions, it's about removing the language needed to talk about barriers to success.  It's about removing the ability to study those barriers and break them down. It's about removing heroes and inspiration for young people.  A female or black engineering student looking at the NASA website and seeing only white men might reasonably conclude that they have no place there.  That, of course, is the intended effect.[/quote]

What a weird objection.  There are no special billion-dollar USAID programs earmarked for white heterosexual men.  [/quote]

Maybe that's because there aren't a whole lot of white heterosexual men living in poverty in the developing nations where USAID operates.[/quote]

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