• scoobford@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    I can’t listen to it right now, but the issue with characters like Aunt Jemima is that they were just racist stereotypes given a name and slapped on a box.

    I think a good analogy for this situation would be a themed chain where an AI pretends to be a comedic racist caricature.

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      11 months ago

      Well, yes, those caricatures are based off black people that worked in the food industry and came to represent a big part of it. So food brands held on to the image as a way to sell their product. Adopting the voice of a black kid for the AI drive through is not much different imo. It’s a fictional representation of a person that used to do that same job.