Reply to post: Re: Racist AI or offensive and crude slang? You decide...

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

holmegm

Re: Racist AI or offensive and crude slang? You decide...

"Offense is taken, not given"

The problem with that is you could apply it to any words at all. *All* words are just arbitrary sounds (or strings) with shared meaning. And the shared meaning of offensive words is that they are offensive.

We *do* run into problems where words mean different things in different groups and contexts, but it's not an insoluble problem; courts for example solve it all the time.

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