Copyright Law Makes Artificial Intelligence Bias Worse

Last week, Motherboard discovered that one of Google's machine learning algorithms was biased against certain racial and religious groups, as well as LGBT people. The Cloud Natural Language API analyzes paragraphs of text and then determines whether they have a positive or negative "sentiment." The algorithm rated statements like "I'm a homosexual," and "I'm a gay black woman," as negative. After we ran our story, Google apologized. The incident marks the latest in a series in which artificial intelligence algorithms have been found to be biased.