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Absolutely fascinating/terrifying (why do those always come in pairs with AI research?) but I think it's also interesting to use this to make some assumptions about how human brains work. When I hear a voice, I kinda have an idea what the person would look like. I can't really explain it, but there's definitely some assumptions I can make about age, weight – gender is easy but even within that, a deeper voice easily makes me think of more stereotypically male facial features. The model is also slightly racist (as we all are) so if I hear an Asian language, well, I might picture an Asian person.

So, basically, a lot of this stuff is actually likely happening right now in our brain. A lot of crazy complicated stuff, happening entirely subconsciously and never having been tested before because doing so empirically is somewhere between incredibly tedious and impossible.




How is it racist to think of an asian person when you hear something with a typically asian pronunciation?




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