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Santa Clarita County in California is using AI to weed out racist covenants from its 24 million deed documents that date back to 1850. (hai.stanford.edu)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Surely highlighting 5 million out of 24 million is more efficient than checking them all?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If you don't care about false negatives, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

There are only so many historical synonyms for black people, racist language should be searchable with few false negatives

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

false negatives

I don't get your logic here either. A false negative would have zero implications for anyone. It would have no legal standing or relevance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

A false negative would have zero implications for anyone. It would have no legal standing or relevance.

I don't understand, in what way does allowing a racist deed covenant stand unchallenged have zero implications or relevance?

If it did, then what would be the point of rooting them out in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

A false negative would, as I'm understanding the goal here, be a case where the AI missed an existing problem.

It wouldn't change the current state so it wouldn't actively hurt anything though, and of course it's plenty likely a human checker would have overlooked those misses and more.