They taught history in school, but in all honesty, I didn't pay much attention to history while I was in school, as I thought it was boring and irrelevant. Boy was I wrong. I sure am paying attention now.

@girlusocrazy: These were only shown on CBC, which is our crown Corp broadcaster (Canadian broadcasting corporation).

I'm not even sure if we still have them, as I haven't actually watched cable or satellite TV in 25 years. We definitely don't have them on Canadian Netflix.

@mrbojangles25: Amen brother. I think we were all happier when not bombarded with national/world news non stop.

lmao

edit: for those that don't know what I'm talking about, "part of our heritage" is a reoccurring thing in Canada where little tidbits of Canadian history are presented in the form of a short, 30 second commercial.

Example:

Drums. Tried to get a punk rock band going too, back in my twenties, but every time we got a decent bass guitarist he'd flake out and never show up to another practice.

Still have a kit, and occasionally jam with one of my friends, or my brother, both of which are fairly good guitarists. It was actually a pretty good outlet for being cooped up during covid.

@kathaariancode: If you're a complete moron who thinks only white people can be racist, sure.

@nirgal I'm sure this was totally an oversight as well. 🤣

@WitIsWisdom: This convo right now:

"It's obvious it was set up to not show white people"

"Thats not how it works. It obviously was just set up to not generate certain things"

"Yeah, thats what I said. Those certain things being white people"

"Conspiracy! Show me the code!!!"

@robertos:

You're talking to people who were freaking out over Taylor Swift. It's useless man.

Yeah we get it, everything to the left of Stalin is tEh fAr rIGhT to people like you. And when have I ever mentioned Taylor Swift?

@Vaasman:

Your assertion is that they want to avoid showing white people, but like, it's a team of tens if not hundreds if not thousands of individuals who could easily have seen what was wrong with that concept if it was the intended goal. There is essentially no chance that there was a desire to avoid white people when very key depictions of them through history would cause problems.

Yes, they deliberately set it up to avoid generating white people. And if there were hundreds, if not thousands of individuals working on this, how would they not know that this would result in white people not being generated under any circumstance? Hence, it's intentional.

it's a failure at overcorrection by telling the AI to avoid certain generations.

You're literally agreeing that the AI was told to avoid generating certain things. In this case, white people.