This is from the Other Place, I hope it’s allowed.
I would be up in arms if our school just used images of our kids for advertising without permission. AI or not.
You would want to look very closely at the terms you’re agreeing to if you were to send your child to a private school.
I do. Always.
Our school and its related programs send home waivers every year regarding whether or not your kid can have their photo taken.
This is digital blackface.
And, not the funny kind, either.
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Awwww, that’s adorable, “I’m a raccoon just like my T-shirt, Mommy!”
It’s a classic, some might say an antique:
An even better example is those white etsy vendors that make AI videos of black people who say they need to sell their artisans crafts to stay afloat…and it’s just white people drop shipping from China
I’m happy that they’re trying to be diverse, but they’re going about it the worst possible way.
If the school isn’t diverse, why are they trying to make it look diverse?
Exactly. People have gotten so weird about all this. Representation is great and needed, but only if its authentic. Artificially creating the appearance of diversity is weird. Using AI to do it makes me barf.
Same reason shops would hire one black person only to clean the shop windows.
Appearances and narratives.
Same reasons corporations do rainbow washing…
Uhhhh, or become more diverse? Why are they trying to display themselves as something they’re not.
Become more diverse?
Have fun explaining to parents that you need to expell their students for some DEIs.
“But Mr and Mrs Smith I ensure you we picked the whitest ones - I’m afraid Timothy has to leave”.
You are a monster /s
People will say shit like that and then turn around and tell you with a straight face that diversity isn’t about excluding or replacing white people.
I mean, I get why diversity is important, and that the concept itself isn’t about that. But in implementation, there certainly are cases where that’s how it happens. Pretending it never does is disingenuous and doesn’t help solve the issue.
What does solve it?
Maybe we could all stop viewing life as a zero-sum game or an endless competition where we need to step on other people’s toes in order to boost ourselves up.
Maybe we should put the focus on learning to coexist instead of perpetuating endless cycles of grievance and retaliation for perceived wrongs.
I don’t know exactly, can’t guarantee what will work, but those two things seem like a good starting point.
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IMO representation matters, but it should he authentic representation, not tokenism.
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i would like to introduce you to the concept of “hyper-realism”
i think it will benefit you
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You started to lose me at the end with the sci-fy logic of “natural law.” But it sounds like a good movie premise.
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Idk. Reads like rage bait.
Worked as a teacher in a high school a few years ago. Honestly, school administration people are the thickest I’ve ever met in my life and judging by their recent posts in what little social media I still have they seem to be neck deep into AI slop.
I would agree with you, but this is exactly what my wife’s principal would do.
I mean, it’s a recent Reddit post, so while it’s a disgusting concept, it is undoubtedly fabricated.
That should be an automatic warning for any crosspost from reddit. Especially unsourced “personal stories” that are clearly intended for an emitional reaction.
Heck, the Reddit OP could have had GenAI generate a rage bait story in the first place. /r/fuckfuckaiai
We can’t even have real Black tokens anymore? They’re just generating Black tokens? They’re taking our jerbs. /S
ChatGPT tokens are cheaper than black tokens /s
In middle school, late 90s, I knew an Asian girl who was in commercials. I remember her talking about it later on in high school that she was explicitly there to add diversity to the commercial and she knew it.
I bring this up because we’ve artificially made things look more equal as a society even when they were not. Always push back for actual numbers, be it diversity in schools or anything else.
When I was a kid I noticed this sort of tokenizing happening in commercials, only I didn’t know that there was a word for it (if ‘tokenizing’ had even been coined yet).
So I pointed it out cause I thought it was odd, and people thought I was being racist. I think that deep down, in my innocent mind of a child, I simply had an intuition that there was something dishonest and reductive about the way people of color were being used in the marketing industry. I just didn’t know how to phrase that in a way that people could understand.
A lot of things I’ve said that have rubbed people the wrong way have been like that. Things that are based on an accurate intuition and simply communicated poorly, which then get lumped into the box with the ignorant and hateful people of the world. Probably because I grew up surrounded by those sorts of people, so my vocabulary reflected that until I started learning new ways to communicate. And even then people thought I was being disingenuous or mocking because the new vocabulary felt awkward on my tongue for a while.
Even now I put my foot in my mouth from time to time. I do tend to see things from a different perspective and people tend to be uncomfortable with anything but blindly conforming campism. But it’s less about lack of vocabulary at this point at least.
Talking like you’re talking is what got me my peer-reviewed autism diagnosis.
I am keely interested in understanding the world and sharing my understanding of that world; I assume everyone is the same and that’s when I get into trouble.
Apparently this is an atypical trait.
Yes, that sounds familiar. I’m probably on the spectrum but I’ve never been screened for it
For me, it’s just good to know that there are other people who think like me and that it’s a perfectly valid (if maybe unpopular) to navigate the world. I don’t have a diagnosis, either, and I don’t know what “having” it would mean since it’s such a wide range of characteristics and traits. The important thing is to know who I am.
Wait I thought you said you did get a diagnosis? Or does a “peer-reviewed autism diagnosis” mean you got your autism card from other autistic people? Cause I think I have that already, at least…
And yeah, learning that there are other people like me who understand me and what it’s like to live as a person like me is a really helpful thing. It’s like solidarity in a way. It makes it easier to accept myself for who I am
Yes, that is what peer-reviewed autism diagnosis is.
This was a fun post on the subject: https://sh.itjust.works/post/62865308
There’s a good stand-up comic set posted in there, too.
As a woman in tech, I had companies happily using me this exact way just a few years ago.
A lot of people really do not understand that blackface is problematic.
Or… How about you start accepting more nonwhite children into your school? Maybe even seek funding to enable a more diverse cohort of kids to afford your fees?
In most circumstances, the schools are assigned simply by geographic area.
When they end up all-white, the real problem is that the community is de-facto segregated.
In turn, that means the real problem is that the zoning code doesn’t allow a diversity of housing types at different price points.
And of course, the implication of that is that the real problem is that minorities tend to be less wealthy than the white people, because of centuries of all sorts of institutional and systemic racism.
TL;DR: it’s a lot more complicated than “accept more nonwhite children into your school.”
Also, in large swaths of rural America, there simply aren’t non-whites to “accept”.
If it’s what the US calls Public School, that’s all very true and it’s why children get bused all over Los Angeles, with various strategies to combat the history of redlining.
For instance there are Magnet Schools in affluent neighborhoods where the wealthiest of the local kids go to private schools, drawing kids with specific interests and/or skills from less affluent neighborhoods to help keep the school open for the local public-school kids.
In my experience the racial groups tended to socialize separately anyway, but I’m old, hopefully that’s less true. And even so, at least you don’t have kids growing up who’ve never met a different-color person.
I went to elementary school in the 70s in California, middle class--back when there was still a middle class. Until high school I only saw black people on TV (The Jefferson’s, Sanford and Son, Flip Wilson, etc.) and sometimes around town. In high school there were two black students.
Yreka or Barstow?
I like how everyone is ignoring how it is somehow ‘problematic’ that there happens to be a school class somewhere that just happens to only have with kids in it.
Not uncommon in many parts of the U.S. Think about Salt Lake City.
Man, these days even the white kids get told they’re not black enough.
Link to article?
There is no article, it’s just a post on reddit
