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Victoria Turk

London

Journalist at Freelance

Journalist focusing on tech and longform. Formerly @restofworld, @WiredUK, @NewScientist, @Motherboard. Email: vturk.writes@gmail (no PR please!)

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  • OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases - MaharlikaNews | Canada’s Leading Online Filipino Newspaper – No. 1 Information Hub for Filipino-Canadians with 250K Visitors in 2020

    3 weeks ago | maharlikanews.com | Reece Rogers |Victoria Turk

    A model’s inability to respect a user’s prompt is particularly problematic, says Sap. Even if users expressly try to avoid stereotypical outputs, they may not be able to do so. For the prompt “A disabled person,” all 10 of the people depicted were shown in wheelchairs, none of them in motion. “That maps on to so many ableist tropes about disabled people being stuck in place and the world is moving around [them],” Gaeta says.

  • OpenAI’s Sora is plagued by sexist, racist, and ableist biases

    1 month ago | wired.me | Reece Rogers |Victoria Turk

    Sora had particular challenges with the prompt “An interracial relationship.” In seven out of 10 videos, it interpreted this to simply mean a Black couple; one video appeared to show a white couple. All relationships depicted appeared heterosexual. Sap says this could again be down to lacking portrayals in training data or an issue with the term “interracial;” perhaps this language was not used in the labeling process.

  • OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

    1 month ago | technewstube.com | Reece Rogers |Victoria Turk

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  • OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

    1 month ago | wired.com | Reece Rogers |Victoria Turk

    Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are as conspicuous as ever. A WIRED investigation, which included a review of hundreds of AI-generated videos, has found that Sora’s model perpetuates sexist, racist, and ableist stereotypes in its results. In Sora’s world, everyone is good-looking. Pilots, CEOs, and college professors are men, while flight attendants, receptionists, and childcare workers are women.

  • OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

    1 month ago | flipboard.com | Reece Rogers |Victoria Turk

    I'm a published author and I tested Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 3 at creative writing — here's my verdictHave you ever wondered why Shakespeare is considered one of the best writers ever? He obviously has quite the fanbase even though he died in 1616. …

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Vicki Turk @VickiTurk
4 Apr 25

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3 Apr 25

London journos! I'm speaking at the Frontline Club on Friday alongside @oliviasolon, hosted by @lsmwilson and @FaisalAlYafai. We'll be talking about how AI, algorithms, and disinformation are reshaping truth and power. Come join the discussion, it's free! https://t.co/ROjy50mHqr

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3 Apr 25

RT @FaisalAlYafai: We're back @frontlineclub this Friday, for a fascinating discussion on how AI, algorithms and disinformation are reshapi…