poverty porn
Artificial intelligence, real racism: why the code can’t fix ‘poverty porn’
The arrival of artificial intelligence in the global development and non-profit sectors has sparked a period of intense ethical reflection around what some are calling ‘poverty porn 2.0’. The challenge is not merely technical but fundamental to non-profit mission. One important question is how to maintain credibility in an era where seeing is no longer…
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How do we stop AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images?
There is an important and necessary conversation happening right now about the use of generative artificial intelligence in global health and humanitarian communications. Researchers like Arsenii Alenichev are correctly identifying a new wave of “poverty porn 2.0,” where artificial intelligence is used to generate stereotypical, racialized images of suffering – the very tropes many of…
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