{"id":10032,"date":"2020-01-13T18:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=10032"},"modified":"2020-01-13T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T18:51:10","slug":"business-fake-diversity-used-to-fool-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/01\/13\/business-fake-diversity-used-to-fool-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Business: &#8220;Fake Diversity&#8221; used to fool consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than hiring actual diverse workforces &#8211; or actors for advertising &#8211; or recruiting diverse customers for data sites &#8211; businesses are using &#8220;fake people&#8221; images created by computer software.<\/p>\n<p>Photoshopping is so last year &#8211; the new stuff uses AI generated images:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Companies infamously have embarrassed themselves through haphazard diversity-boosting attempts, Photoshopping a black man into an all-white crowd, as the University of Wisconsin, Madison, did on an undergraduate booklet, or superimposing women into group photos of men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In any other context, we&#8217;d call this fraud:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The company, Braun said, signed three clients in its first week: an American university, a dating app and a human-resources planning firm. Braun declined to name the clients.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/dating-apps-need-women-advertisers-need-diversity-ai-companies-offer-a-solution-fake-people\/\">Dating apps need women. Advertisers need diversity. AI companies offer a solution: fake people | The Seattle Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than hire actual diverse workforces, or recruit actual diverse student bodies, businesses and universities are using AI generated fake images of people in order to show their diversity. Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-in-practice","category-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}