• Krauerking@lemy.lol
    21·
    3 hours ago

    So it’s pseudo-scientific racism using appearance to state desirability.

    Hmmm almost reminds me of a group using head size measurements to note undesirables, and thought of a specific appearance as hard workers and the future of the reich… But can’t recall how that went.

    • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
      13·
      2 hours ago

      So it’s pseudo-scientific racism using appearance to state desirability.

      Yeah. Phrenology is actual Nazi science.

      • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
        2·
        34 minutes ago

        I saw that you corrected yourself, but to expand, Nazis pulled from whatever information to create the narrative they wanted. It was a hodgepodge of theories, also including mysticism and even the hollow Earth theory that we live on the inside of the Earth sphere.

        Phenology itself was already nearly 200 years old by the time the Nazi party was established. It was already becoming an unpopular idea the 1830s, but it hasn’t stopped it from bouncing around and having people pull from it to this day.

        https://ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/482/

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPEnglish
    10·
    3 hours ago

    I think many people are at least able to see how stupid this is.

    But I guess if put a tad more subtle, the majority of recruiters and managers might fall for it. “Candidates which prefer yellow peppers over green ones have be found by our AI to be the more capable receptionists!” /s

    (Another thing I see is that I have seen a lot of non-trivial algorithm applications that are now touted as “ai” stuff, like basic pattern recognition, algebraic solvers, PCA, board game strategies, path planning in public transport networks, image enhancement, weather forecasts, SAT solvers, and so on… some of that might have resulted out of “ai” research, often as many as forty years ago, and some not. But most people were never aware of these things, much less how they work. And now it is all touted as “ai” as in GenAI. This will only add to the confusion. The better term would be “advanced information processing algorithms”.)

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
      2·
      49 minutes ago

      Those algorithms were collectively referred to as AI long before gen AI existed. It is gen AI that is riding on classical AIs name.