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An essay argues that searching "ugly hair" on Google Images consistently returns mostly Black women with natural hair, and that this isn't a glitch: it's what happens when a system learns from biased data and nobody intervenes.


Resumo para não especialistas Este artigo discute como algoritmos de inteligência artificial podem reproduzir desigualdades sociais em vez de agir de forma neutra. O foco está em mostrar que esses sistemas podem reforçar exclusões ligadas à raça, ao gênero e à sexualidade, especialmente quando organizam buscas, classificam imagens ou tomam decisões com base em dados já marcados por preconceitos históricos.

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