'Three black teenagers' Google search sparks outrage
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google image searches for "three black teenagers" and "three white teenagers" get very different results, raising troubling questions about how racial bias in society and the media is reflected online.
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[url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/09/google-image-search-three-black-teenagers-three-white-teenagers/85648838/[/url]
[media]https://twitter.com/iBeKabir/status/740005897930452992[/media]
The results seem pretty accurate.
doesn't google show images based on relevancy
Their laugh is priceless
It's true that there's racial diversity in the world, a wound like what's happened in just the last few hundred years isn't a wound that's gonna heal anytime soon..
.. but this is a Google search, it's a dumb computer relating to what people's relevance. I'm 100% sure this isn't some huge conspiracy biased against blacks.
[quote]People have been flagging racial bias in the results of search engines for years. Google says it's merely reflecting back the biases that exist in society and that show up in what and how people search online.
In an emailed statement, Google said its image search results are a reflection of what's on the Web, including the frequency with which certain types of images appear and how they are described.[/quote]
Basically this.
if you google "black teenagers", you get mostly great stock photos. It's when you add a number that you start getting mugsots, I guess because of news reports.
[QUOTE=Splarg!;50515337]Basically this.[/QUOTE]
So it's true then, like in Ex Machina. Google doesn't show what people want, it shows how people think.
I can't help but laugh at the fact that people will cry RACISM at something because of its relevance
google search is a reflection of society and some people don't like what they see
poetic :v:
I wanted to limit the number of black people I see to two per image and I get this racist as fuck image. How can google allow a picture of a black person in a basketball jersey show up on there search results.
[IMG]http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/200257728-003-two-teenage-boys-portrait-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=NuqJ0RnxYoPz49KmVpDCZiC2zBEIDVQ4Ho75vEFGCIOhgZw86PxmJs%2BPu%2Bm%2BRbGdSdrdHPQY0VZDvTpwBGYMBw%3D%3D[/IMG]
I a white guy so I figure i want to see a picture with a healthy amount of white people in them, so "four white teenagers". I get this image
[IMG]http://blacklikemoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/27/necrophiliacs-mugshots-650x520.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE]necrophiliacs-mugshots-650x520.jpg[/QUOTE]
[quote]SAN FRANCISCO[/quote]
Not a good start.
Joking aside google images aren't based on relevancy and all that jazz, honestly I tried it my self and excluding the images related to the article that show up first I got stock photos and mugshots/being arrested shots for both searches.
It's because he's making the mistake of not searching for [url=https://www.google.com/search?q=three+african+american+teenagers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTsvfvsKbNAhWKqx4KHfEMC0kQ_AUICCgB&biw=1280&bih=587]three african american teenagers[/url], which conveys adjustment to a white american lifestyle.
Everything is racist
That's pretty damn funny
/pol/ discovered google's biased image results awhile ago. its "better" than it used to be but searching for "white women" gave you nothing but interracial couples.
What people don't seem to realize is that Google searches aren't planned out lists picked by humans, but just an algorithm that blindly pulls information from the web as it finds it. It'd be nearly impossible to write exceptions to this algorithm to filter out any racism it might find, and it displaying seemingly racist results isn't racist in and of itself.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/WxYxOJB.png[/t]
I mean, I can see why someone would think google is racist I guess but come on
When was the last time a news report about teenagers that had been arrested was titled "x white teenagers" if they were white?
Exactly.
[QUOTE=archangel125;50518462]When was the last time a news report about teenagers that had been arrested was titled "x white teenagers" if they were white?
Exactly.[/QUOTE]
Are you trying to say it only matters if crime is committed by someone who is black?
this is a non issue
[QUOTE=tetmet;50518474]Are you trying to say it only matters if crime is committed by someone who is black?[/QUOTE]
That's a pretty stupid assumption, not going to lie.
I'm saying that when the criminal is black, their race tends to be reported by news media in an effort to spark anti-minority outrage.
[QUOTE=MrWhite;50516876]What people don't seem to realize is that Google searches aren't planned out lists picked by humans, but just an algorithm that blindly pulls information from the web as it finds it. It'd be nearly impossible to write exceptions to this algorithm to filter out any racism it might find, and it displaying seemingly racist results isn't racist in and of itself.[/QUOTE]
That's not the point I don't think. The point is that society as a whole is still racist, which is propagated by the media.
Perfect example as mentioned above; if a group of white teenagers commit a crime they're referred to simply as 'teenagers', but if it's a group of ethnic minority teenagers they're referred to as 'African American teenagers' 'aboriginal teenagers' or whatever for wherever you live.
[QUOTE=archangel125;50518480]I'm saying that when the criminal is black, their race tends to be reported by news media in an effort to spark anti-minority outrage.[/QUOTE]
Think you might be reading into it a little bit too much there?
[QUOTE=archangel125;50518480]That's a pretty stupid assumption, not going to lie.
I'm saying that when the criminal is black, their race tends to be reported by news media in an effort to spark anti-minority outrage.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say it's "in an effort to spark anti-minority outrage," just rather that it's symptomatic of American culture as a whole. "White" is the assumed default race, "black" has to be specified.
If you google "teens arrested," you'll generally see that white teens are described by age alone, while black teens have "black" describing them in addition to age. This ends up fueling a lot of racial bias, but I really really doubt it's intentional racism - more just a byproduct of society viewing "white" as a "default race."
What if the dude googled afro-american crimes, but not white crimes because they are more relevant to him? That would skew google results.
Some people are not content unless there's some racism to complain about.
I do wonder why you would want to google 3 black teenagers unless your agenda was to prove that google is racist.
I decided to look up three asian teenagers
Someone over at shutterstock thought this was a good idea somehow?
[img]http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-three-asian-teenagers-in-colorful-clothes-with-lollipops-1380586.jpg[/img]
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[QUOTE=.Isak.;50518509]I wouldn't say it's "in an effort to spark anti-minority outrage," just rather that it's symptomatic of American culture as a whole. "White" is the assumed default race, "black" has to be specified.
If you google "teens arrested," you'll generally see that white teens are described by age alone, while black teens have "black" describing them in addition to age. This ends up fueling a lot of racial bias, but I really really doubt it's intentional racism - more just a byproduct of society viewing "white" as a "default race."[/QUOTE]
Well most Americans are white. A fraction of Americans are black
I decided to look up three asian teenagers
Someone over at shutterstock thought this was a good idea somehow?
[img]http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-three-asian-teenagers-in-colorful-clothes-with-lollipops-1380586.jpg[/img]
How disappointing, where are their school uniforms?
[QUOTE=proboardslol;50518990]I decided to look up three asian teenagers
[B]Someone over at shutterstock thought this was a good idea somehow?[/B]
[img]http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-three-asian-teenagers-in-colorful-clothes-with-lollipops-1380586.jpg[/img]
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I see no issues here :weeb:
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