Core problem is training data - only really looking at WOS/SCOPUS but not tools like @scielo.org African Research Journals etc. The training data must be dramatically widened to reflect non-English research.
#AI #NikeshGosalia #R2RConf
It's not a question of guardrails, but who will make them. #Equity has to be designed, it will not happen naturally. These systems are working exactly as designed. NOT a technical problem, it's a choice problem which means can be unmade. Not easy or quick, but solvable.
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This is not a metaphor for #colonialism. It is colonialism. #NikeshGosalia #R2RConf And every minute it gets worse. Compounding with each new training instance. AI is being optimized for specific user base. Non-english speakers not "seen" in these tools.
#academicsky #AI #sciencesky
"Everyone deserves to be seen" re: AI.
Commerce or equity? Efficiency or justice?
AI that only works for 20% of researchers is NOT neutral. You have choices around HOW you use it. How YOU use it matters: #NikeshGosalia #R2RConf
Our AI only "sees" Western, English speakers. 93% of training data for #GPT is in English. Is AI democratizing access to scholcomm OR encoding colonialism at scale. (SR NOTE: TLDR - my vote is the latter).
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#NikeshGosalia kicking off #R2RConf session on #AI impact on global south - fascinating story of "Shirley cards" used by Kodak to calibrate for color of their printers. They KNEW the whole time that it didn't work on brown/black ppl. Techonly changed when chocolate makers didn't like how it looked.
