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Santa Clarita County in California is using AI to weed out racist covenants from its 24 million deed documents that date back to 1850. (hai.stanford.edu)

submitted 12 hours ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

If you don't care about false negatives, maybe.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

There are only so many historical synonyms for black people, racist language should be searchable with few false negatives

[–] Lugh 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

false negatives

I don't get your logic here either. A false negative would have zero implications for anyone. It would have no legal standing or relevance.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 10 hours ago

A false negative would have zero implications for anyone. It would have no legal standing or relevance.

I don't understand, in what way does allowing a racist deed covenant stand unchallenged have zero implications or relevance?

If it did, then what would be the point of rooting them out in the first place?

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 11 hours ago

A false negative would, as I'm understanding the goal here, be a case where the AI missed an existing problem.

It wouldn't change the current state so it wouldn't actively hurt anything though, and of course it's plenty likely a human checker would have overlooked those misses and more.