Why a sexy robot with big boobs is media and marketing’s canary in the coalmine

When it came time to design a cover for her new book about artificial intelligence, it seemed fitting for Tracey Spicer to give the job to machine learning-powered software.

The flood of options it instantly spat out had a common theme – big-boobed, small-waisted and uber sexy female robots, which illustrated perfectly the acclaimed journalist and author’s point, that AI is inherently biased.

And it’s only going to get worse, Spicer warned.

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