Clive Thompson on Nostr: It turns out that the major AI search engines, when asked about IQ scores around the ...
It turns out that the major AI search engines, when asked about IQ scores around the world …
… have been citing the racist, deeply flawed data-set of white supremacist Richard Lynn — which offers preposterously low scores for countries like Kenya and Sierra Leone
These numbers are often excitedly cited on white supremacist sites — they have unusual influence. The guy who killed ten Black Americans in Buffalo in 2022? He talked about them
Wired story here: https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-perplexity-scientific-racism-search-results-ai/
… have been citing the racist, deeply flawed data-set of white supremacist Richard Lynn — which offers preposterously low scores for countries like Kenya and Sierra Leone
These numbers are often excitedly cited on white supremacist sites — they have unusual influence. The guy who killed ten Black Americans in Buffalo in 2022? He talked about them
Wired story here: https://www.wired.com/story/google-microsoft-perplexity-scientific-racism-search-results-ai/