The European facial features and hair textures, the colorism, the real housewives aesthetics . . . who were they making these for? AI is racist because the politics and practices used by their programmers create images and ideas where the default is white. AI is colonized because it relies on the extraction and exploitation of existing art pieces, many crafted and cultivated by working class folks (folx) across color and queer lines. Their artistic and intellectual knowledge are both being harvested by colonizers who consume and capitalize off their labor, without recognition and, worse, without consent and compensation.
This is why we support human artists and not racist robots.
Originally from @knowyourcaribbean
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Part 1 of Barbie across the Caribbean by @buzzfeed. They didn’t cover every Caribbean nation missing most of the French and Dutch speaking Caribbean and not including Puerto Rico as it’s own country either.
I would suggest you look at Buzzfeed’s entire coverage of the world and compare because in comparison I find our coverage vacuous.
Mostly a miss with a sprinkling of hits for me …but what do you think?
If you don’t see your country Part 2 has been posted - if you don’t see it then talk to @buzzfeed
And want to see all all? Google it to see 195 countries they covered - they did not include - Puerto Rico, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, Saba, Saint Martin and Sint Marteen, Montserrat, Cayman Islands british or US Virgin Islands
#SideEyeingTheEurocentrism
Galleryyuhself - So this happened…
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