In a stunning, and visually beautiful post, The Conscious Style Guide explores the AI view of the world. For instance, the prompt “Indian man” generated mostly pictures of old men with beards.

If you are interested in honest, inclusive communication, this newsletter introduces you to new ideas, new players, and asks you to question what you are assuming with every word you say.

In the November, issue, an eye catching article examines how

How AI reduces the world to stereotypes

“Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.”

My first question was who is Rest of World? You can find them at https://restofworld.org/about/

Rest of World

Mission

Rest of World is a nonprofit publication that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. We connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated.

About our name

Why “Rest of World”? It’s a corporate catchall term used in the West to designate “everyone else.” Companies use it to lump together people and markets outside wealthy Western countries. We like the term because it encapsulates the problems we fight head-on: a casual disregard for billions of people, and a Western-centric worldview that leaves an unthinkable number of insights, opportunities, and nuances out of the global conversation.

We aren’t generating images, but we are using AI to help capture the spoken word—so we can focus on capturing nuance, idioms, colloquialisms—the words that make the spoken word different from the written word. It’s disturbing to think that AI bias could be affecting the work we do.

Our transcriptionists take special care to listen carefully to what is said, and make sure that context and nuance are preserved. We’ve got to remain vigilant to watch for bias in the transcripts we work on.