So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

I don't think anyone is defending bad employees, but they're also not labelling hundreds of people as incompetent just to defend one billionaire man-baby and his superhuman ego.

My mistake - those terms aren't actually offensive, they are/were well established technical terms used to describe purely technical aspects. But some people with nothing else better to do decided they are offensive, and the very fact these people have any word to say in purely technical matters is part of the reason we see such failures.

If the tech bro community (and the hint is in the name) was anything near diverse, they wouldn't keep pushing out applications that work beautifully for 20-30 something white males, but not quite so well if you're older with poor vision or you forgot your glasses or you come from a different culture and don't get their in-joke error messages. They would also have worked out why blacklisting and master/slave terminology was offensive on their own, without needing to be told by outsiders.

You can't possibly be serious.

Have you ever wondered why you have to help your elderly relatives with all the new fangled technology? It's not because they're thick. It's because applications are largely designed by 20-30 somethings for 20-30 somethings. Go test your application on older people, on people with sight loss, on people with dyslexia, on non-native langauge speakers and other diverse audiences and see how well your design works.

Anything with face recognition. There have been issues because they grabbed a load of white people to train the systems and then they failed horribly when introduced to anyone who didn't look like the training group.

Unsure how it has improved over the last few years though if it has at all.

Although never put in production there was also the Amazon attempt at building an ai to help hire people. Except their only training data of good hires were people who already worked there, even without working out gender as a specific input it figured it out from the cv and was wildly sexist as its training data was largely male. Even without changing anything to do with qualifications it would remove women faster than men. The entire project had to be scrapped though there was no malice on behalf of the creators who had been trying to remove bias. However many modern applications are only as good as the input used to create them.

So any sort of ai could have similar issues with race as people from different parts of the world tend to have different naming styles etc.

The vast majority of AAA games that have a human as player character allows the player to choose any colour and gender. The rest of them, the ones that have a set player character, are quite diverse in terms of gender and race.

Twitter bans the ElonJet account.

"My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk" - Elon Musk. November 7, 2022.

I'm not going down that rabbit hole of madness, sorry, equally I don't think that it is it racism that white boys experience when they watch professional basketball...or sexism when fashion shows employ 95% women!

Good money in complaining about it though, lots of cash in that!!