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    1. i hate that there's a widely used dataset for machine learning that is pictures of celebrity faces
  1. …in reply to @v21
    (why? because we are training foundational models of "what a human face looks like" on faces that are a) photoshopped b) taken in specific contexts and c) of people who generally conform to very normative standards of beauty, d) also there's a ton of age & race & gender stuff)
    1. …in reply to @v21
      we're fighting the battle to see clearly in the here-and-now, and meanwhile computer scientists are busy building our current problems into the foundations of the future. fuck the CelebA dataset.