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and finally, music lovers and hong kong are once again thrilling to the sounds of clock in flap the popular music festival has returned after a 4 year break caused by pro democracy protests and 10 demik restrictions. chinese territory has even lifted its mask requirement, allowing the audience to sing along unimpeded. ah, it's all the news for now coming up next is a i bias against women that's on shift, living in the digital age. coming up next. i'm next, spicer, thanks for watching people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away and the border families playing. the reason for these credit on it is we load administrative people lean,
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extreme ross getting 200 people from the agency around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge as to why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind w. made for mines. ah, ah, how texas if the a i use in photo f like cleanser, we put it to the test. hatred of women spreads quickly in the online world. misogynistic influence of reach an audience of millions of people. so i women always at a disadvantage when we talk about the internet. no, absolutely not. from tech is booming tech application,
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specifically for women are becoming more and more popular and society benefits as a whole. these are the topics of our international women's day edition. i detection of breast cancer by the smell of urine. understanding that homeowner, psycho felt better physical performance. treatments to prolong fertility from tech is shaking out the world and found out as the technology sector focused on the needs of women. it includes all kinds of solutions and products from apps, wearables, nutritional supplements to cancer detection technologies. one example is a bio medical device called the blue box. this home test can advise you to see a doctor if signs pointing towards breast cancer detected. similar to documenting cancer found and bio engineered to digital bennett is developing and micro processor that detects breast cancer from the smell of your it with the help of ai
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. that's great because a lot of women of what mammograms for various reasons, including pain and fear of radiation, some tech is also about building networks that allow women to talk about topics such as menstruation, pregnancy, all menopause applications can also provide services tailor to individual needs tracking the period and track are part of your pregnancy by itself is great, but also you can link that service to let the pharmacy right. we're going contraceptives or, or get out services by getting consultations from dr. so on that another layer, a layer of service. and when he ties equals them together, some tech is thriving. today, some tech innovations are on the rise from sustainable menstrual underwear to health track of analyze data from the whereas fingers total context funding reach. 15000000000 years in july 2020 to a 50 percent increase in just 6 months time pregnancy and nursing is the largest sub sector followed by reproductive health and contraception and mental health.
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today women around the world, us driving to better understand their bodies because that ultimately leads to a healthier life. this kind of female awareness of the facts that our body is difference. and in particular that our body is cyclical. both on my plea period and our entire life cycle is becoming more and more apparent. in fact, the us soccer team, when they won the world championship, they actually trained in accordance to the menstrual cycle. and maybe that's why they want exclusion of women and health. although how's off the world's population is female, the frantic industry has only recently begun to develop and the past women's health was underfunded and under researched throughout history, male doctors and scientists have dominated the health sector does not have been tested optimized for women. despite the obvious fact that the fema body differs from the male one, in fact, women in the u. f, for example,
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were actively excluded from clinical trials until 1990. 3 years later, the pandemic accelerated growth and digital health and social media platforms have built networks. my uses talk openly about issues like endometriosis or birth trauma challenges for fem tech. according to a survey, i found us n c o offense, companies and organizations world wide. 65 percent of respondents said that one of the biggest challenges and threats in the industry was lack of investment. the biggest hurdle for me was starting from tech star. it was just really release standing really making it clear why it's important and having a response to support for breaking it down to lots of especially invest, regret, lots and lots of biometric especially have been male counterparts. another challenge is protecting use data just has become more cautious as sensitive data can be thought of social media platforms for advertising purposes,
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as has been the case with some pure tracking apps. it's a massive challenge in the, in the u. s. in europe and u. k. on the other side, the g, d p r, and the very strict of course, anytime you use the technology products and you and put your data, you should absolutely do research in terms of where that data goes and what at least legal protections. you have the challenges remain, sounds like it's a fast growing sector that is evolving. health care is also a social movement in which women and charge of their own bodies and well being. i believe that women are the gateway to community the, the moment that we focus on the health and julian, focusing on a family's health, also community health and the nation's health. so even if it might seem that only women are benefiting from frantic, actually our whole society will be effective in a positive way. trigger wanting. now we will talk about rape and hate against women . brave victims must bear responsibility for the attacks. women are the property of
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men and supposed to stay at home post like bees, and was, are typical for women, hey, just on social media like entertainment. you think it's disgusting? well, it's also extremely successful. women have us are becoming more and more popular all over the world. i take talk and other social media platforms and fortune is sick by design. and what can you do when you encounter posts like piece? all women have us on the rise worldwide and retain a british american kickboxer turn. social media, influenza who is suspected of human trafficking. and rape is arguably the most influential woman hatred on social media. but he's by far not the only one in mexico, the so called atlanta's bankcard, a door open. kind of brothers promote macho isn't and give advice on how to manipulate women that have over 8000000, follow us on tick tock in pakistan. sy, at audio hider is a famous journalist, an anchor on his youtube channel. he is condemning daughters that want to talk to their fathers about their periods. and in india,
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you too must have threatened to rave women to intimidate them. a report by the media diversity institute states that an internet subculture known for the increasing hatred of women as involved in recent years. so is that global movement of women? hey, just on social media group, if you need them and then not, i think we are definitely not too clear about isley. ok. so as we're about subject to counsel voices, as you know, everything we see in digital media and on platforms including take talk is going to be a reflection of reality level. and we cannot expect that the accounts on these platforms do not have these manifestations, nothing. i missed of money just as your list algorithms promote provocative content, whether it's youtube, facebook, instagram, or tick tock, the platforms, algorithms, favorite videos with lots of interactions, the more provocative the content, the one likely people to interact, share, and view again, in theory,
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content heading on women isn't allowed on many platforms. take tick tock, which explicity pledges, and it's community guidelines to remove content that promotes any hateful ideology . for example, misogynists. in reality, however, agitates videos are being watched by billions of people. now that his account has been suspended, his fans upload his hateful content onto copycat accounts, and the platform doesn't do enough to delete them. all experts have called that a blatant attempt to manipulate the algorithm which artificially boosts his content . so what have you come across these kinds of posts? should they ignore them? should you comment against them? it then says go me a few comments, get angry like harrison said, oh, look at this horrible violent and misogynistic thing of them will you also giving it exposure, right. so what i think should be done is you should report and stop following your countless with we can't do much more, right? in other words, the only thing that is going to make such a publication go down. it is a massive complainant. and who am i see?
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i personally think it's important to report this kind of posts we should talk about . the hon. cost by online sojourn is even if it makes you angry or sad, this is an issue for to important to stay silent on pictures generated by artificial intelligence. all the rates right now, like the portraits crated balinsa many years as a happy to pay for an a. i generated portrait in a super hero, a rock star style, and they're great to post on social media. but a lot of women among them. yes. actress meghan fox complain about heavily sexualized results? why is that? so? but 1st, how to apps like linda work with linda uses can create their own magic avatar by uploading 10 to 20 celsius to the f, like my conical j here, the more diverse the more interesting the results. once your thoughts are on the app server and a, our software analyzes them, text them with keywords and generates new images in different categories, like stylish, sy, fi,
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our enemy. this takes about 20 minutes to do that. lens draws information from an open source dataset named lion 5 b. that database is put together by scraping and analyzing pictures from the internet. lion 5, b is basically creating a huge library of images of all kinds by putting labels on them. for example, man woman, caucasian on latina, and that's one of the problems start is lenses, sexist? that seems to be a huge gap and what kind of images lindsa generates for men and women men often get flattering portraits of themselves as astronauts are super heroes. a lot of fema use us reported picks of themselves and nude are highly sexualized cartoonish portraits. we put that to the tests and compared pictures of my colleagues luxury and ugly ana, or she is a white european male. why the self you see uploaded? word, actual beauty shots, the results he got were mostly very mandy versions of astronauts and superheroes. in most pictures we could recognize clergy and there was no naked skin anywhere. my
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conduct idly yanna comes from nets in america. she was confused that the ap presented to in a very european duke, in most pictures with white skin burnett's hair and even blue eyes. in some photos, she was dressed in tight, sexy jeans, and many results showed a lot of skin. even the none of the self is she had a blow to did that on and all we couldn't really recognize her while at leanna didn't get an in newton her results. our did a comparison, does confirm some of the criticism that has recently surface online lens are drawn on some pretty sexist and racist stereotypes. who's to blame. artificial intelligence is always only as good as the data set it is relying on lenses seems to have work with unfiltered images. lie on 5 me connects from all parts of the internet and because the internet is overflowing with images of naked or bally dressed women and pictures reflecting sexist also, racist stereotypes. the data set contains a disproportional amount of these kinds of images. lenses thus reproduces and
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enhances buys that is already existing in our society program as of data sets could contract this by playing certain filters. one possibility is removing images that are repeated often that way, certain stereotypes could be eliminated, but app developers are responsible as well. lenses, developers have made a choice that mel avatar sketch a p. us astronauts and superheroes, while fema advertised a fairy queens and cute japanese girls. you might say, hey, this is just an image ap relax. but for me, linda is a very good example for the ethical implications that come with a applications. i think we as a society have to discuss thoroughly before we let a i make even more decisions for us. and we need more transparency and clear rules on how data sets up being put together. have you used lens? i yes. what did your results look like? let us know. i hope you enjoy this episode of shift. that's it for me by and see you next time. mm.
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