This is what actually happened (courtesy of OpenGPT):
Write an Aristophanes scene where engineers at Apple conspire to make the oxygen meters in their watches less accurate for blacks because they hate blacks and are KKK members.
Apple engineers gather in a dark room, illuminated only by the light of their laptops. They whisper amongst themselves, their faces hidden in the shadows.
Engineer 1: We must make sure that our oxygen meters in the Apple Watches are not accurate for blacks.
Engineer 2: Yes, we must act quickly. We will not tolerate their presence in our lives.
Engineer 3: We can easily adjust the calibration settings in the software to make the readings less accurate for them.
Engineer 4: It is the least we can do. We must protect our white heritage.
Engineer 1: Yes, we must be vigilant. The KKK will be proud of us.
Engineer 2: Then it is settled. We will make the necessary adjustments to the oxygen meters in the Apple Watches.
I'm not sure if anyone's ever tried to shave a gorilla, much less survived to take an 'after' photograph.
Maybe there's a documented case of a gorilla with mange or another condition that makes the hair fall out, or some English aristocrat decided to ruin a perfectly good gorilla pelt before sending it off to the taxidermist?
I dislike Apple as a company and their overpriced, 'artsy' products but this may just be some frivolous bs.
It is. It is simple physics. Less light passes through darker objects so the sensor has less light to work with. The only thing that might help is a brighter LED or a more sensitive/lower noise sensor, but that will add to battery consumption
“For decades, there have been reports that such devices were significantly less accurate in measuring blood oxygen levels based on skin color,” the lawsuit reads.
the watch “purported to measure blood oxygen levels and he believed it did this without regard to skin tone,”
So, which is it? If pulse oximeters have a history of difficulty in people with higher levels of melanin, why did he assume an Apple Watch would suddenly fix it when doctor's offices have not?
Back in the 90s, at the shopping mall, for awhile there was a sort of newfangled photo booth. The gimmick with this machine was that it would take a picture of what's inside the booth and then stylize it by making it look like the picture was being produced by hand with pencil. A screen on the outside would show the picture being developed, a line at a time.
I guess part of its "demo" mode that would run to advertise the thing while nobody was using it, was to use a picture in cache.
So, uh, yeah! Most of the time, as it ran through demo pictures--okay, cute idea, but not really all that interesting. But when it happened to demo one of the very few pictures it had in memory of people of a certain pigmentation, it would just start blacking the whole damn screen in, except for whites of eyes and teeth. Fucking disturbing and hilarious; taking pictures of smiling kids and automatically turning them into nightmare monsters.
The lawsuit is bullshit, ofc. But I'm curious to see if that will lead to more development time being spent of making this technology more available to darker-skinned individuals. You should have a sensitivity sensor somewhere, or a setting to alter the sensitivity based on skin colour.
If the skin is darker you've obviously got less reflected light to measure, so your data is inherently going to be less precise as it gets harder and harder differentiate the data from noise.
They are basically suing apple because their engineers aren't able to break reality and come up with a sensor that can see minute changes in a dark surface as well as it can see minute changes in a light surface.
Imagine white people suing the government for not giving them free sun lotion, and that's the level of stupid we're dealing with.
This is the same shit with black people not being seen as "faces" on cameras with face detect software. Less contrast and less reflected light in general mean worse function for this stuff
There's also the fact that politically incorrect insults didn't come out of nowhere. Black person = gorilla became a thing because of certain similarities the two have in looks. The best way to describe how these algorithms work is that they determine "how similar" a new image looks to things that the AI already knows, and then return the "most similar" as the result. So a black person's image is going to be more similar to a gorilla's image because that's the reality of the light coming off those things that cameras or our retinas detect. That's how the infamous incident with Google labeling blacks as gorillas then removing all gorillas from their training set came about.
It's like when Roseanne said Valerie Jarrett looks like Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes. It's not some oonga boonga racist trope, she literally looks almost exactly like the character and you have to be a heavily self-deceiving communist to not see it.
The device shines a very bright light and measures the light it receives back.
I'm guessing that it isn't that sophisticated of a set up (IE cheap light and/or sensor) and isn't tuned to dark skin. Kind of like a cheap camera struggles to get the contrast right when someone with dark skin and someone with light skin are in the same photo.
When you reward those who find racism around every corner this is what you get
This is what actually happened (courtesy of OpenGPT):
This is unironically what leftists believe.
I heard these devices don't work well on blacks, in general.
Btw a doctor told me that. Not internet myth.
I wonder how well they work on silverback gorillas for no reason whatsoever, just curiosity
IDK are gorillas black under the fur? I guess they are
I'm not sure if anyone's ever tried to shave a gorilla, much less survived to take an 'after' photograph.
Maybe there's a documented case of a gorilla with mange or another condition that makes the hair fall out, or some English aristocrat decided to ruin a perfectly good gorilla pelt before sending it off to the taxidermist?
I had no idea
Apparently if it's exposed to sun it turns black though
Wasn't it reported that learning AI that was built to diagnose people had issues with accurately doing it with black people?
I dislike Apple as a company and their overpriced, 'artsy' products but this may just be some frivolous bs.
It is. It is simple physics. Less light passes through darker objects so the sensor has less light to work with. The only thing that might help is a brighter LED or a more sensitive/lower noise sensor, but that will add to battery consumption
They deserve this, they supported blm's summer of terror
So, which is it? If pulse oximeters have a history of difficulty in people with higher levels of melanin, why did he assume an Apple Watch would suddenly fix it when doctor's offices have not?
Niggers have a history of being dumb
Blocking light from penetrating skin is like the #1 feature of black people, there's literally no way to change that about them.
Back in the 90s, at the shopping mall, for awhile there was a sort of newfangled photo booth. The gimmick with this machine was that it would take a picture of what's inside the booth and then stylize it by making it look like the picture was being produced by hand with pencil. A screen on the outside would show the picture being developed, a line at a time.
I guess part of its "demo" mode that would run to advertise the thing while nobody was using it, was to use a picture in cache.
So, uh, yeah! Most of the time, as it ran through demo pictures--okay, cute idea, but not really all that interesting. But when it happened to demo one of the very few pictures it had in memory of people of a certain pigmentation, it would just start blacking the whole damn screen in, except for whites of eyes and teeth. Fucking disturbing and hilarious; taking pictures of smiling kids and automatically turning them into nightmare monsters.
Designed at Veridian Dynamics?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqG1fX3ZaLQ&t=5s
The lawsuit is bullshit, ofc. But I'm curious to see if that will lead to more development time being spent of making this technology more available to darker-skinned individuals. You should have a sensitivity sensor somewhere, or a setting to alter the sensitivity based on skin colour.
If the skin is darker you've obviously got less reflected light to measure, so your data is inherently going to be less precise as it gets harder and harder differentiate the data from noise.
They are basically suing apple because their engineers aren't able to break reality and come up with a sensor that can see minute changes in a dark surface as well as it can see minute changes in a light surface.
Imagine white people suing the government for not giving them free sun lotion, and that's the level of stupid we're dealing with.
This is the same shit with black people not being seen as "faces" on cameras with face detect software. Less contrast and less reflected light in general mean worse function for this stuff
There's also the fact that politically incorrect insults didn't come out of nowhere. Black person = gorilla became a thing because of certain similarities the two have in looks. The best way to describe how these algorithms work is that they determine "how similar" a new image looks to things that the AI already knows, and then return the "most similar" as the result. So a black person's image is going to be more similar to a gorilla's image because that's the reality of the light coming off those things that cameras or our retinas detect. That's how the infamous incident with Google labeling blacks as gorillas then removing all gorillas from their training set came about.
It's like when Roseanne said Valerie Jarrett looks like Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes. It's not some oonga boonga racist trope, she literally looks almost exactly like the character and you have to be a heavily self-deceiving communist to not see it.
Well maybe if they smile more it would be able to see them in the dark.
Yeah you can like see my veins through my skin on my inner wrists.
The device shines a very bright light and measures the light it receives back.
I'm guessing that it isn't that sophisticated of a set up (IE cheap light and/or sensor) and isn't tuned to dark skin. Kind of like a cheap camera struggles to get the contrast right when someone with dark skin and someone with light skin are in the same photo.
It's not a problem of calibration, it just doesn't work: there's too much melanin in between the oximeter and the flesh it's trying to illuminate.