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Gen AI's Eugenic Ghost: How Race Science Haunts Sora and Beyond

Ever wonder why your AI video generator keeps churning out bigoted stereotypes? A new documentary says it's no accident—it's baked in from eugenics-era stats.

Aisha Patel 📅 Mar 21, 2026 ⏱️ 3 min read 👁️ 9 views
Poster for Ghost in the Machine documentary featuring AI-generated racist imagery overlaid on Victorian eugenics diagrams

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Gen AI's biases trace to eugenics pioneers like Galton and Pearson, whose stats underpin modern ML.
  • 'Artificial intelligence' is marketing fluff, masking racist origins in quantifiable 'human differences.'
  • Tech firms ignore fixes because the hype-profit cycle trumps ethics—history proves it.

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Aisha Patel
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Aisha Patel

Former ML engineer turned writer. Covers computer vision and robotics with a practitioner perspective.

#AI bias #Generative AI #Ghost in the Machine #eugenics

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Originally reported by The Verge - AI

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