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NBCUniversal Expands Spellcheck for Bias Partnership With Geena Davis Institute (AI scriptwriters)
Variety ^ | 10 07 2021 | Selome Hailu

Posted on 10/13/2021 12:07:47 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

NBCUniversal’s Global Talent Development and Inclusion (GTDI) group announced an expansion of its Spellcheck for Bias partnership with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. After a year-long pilot initiative using the tool to create more opportunities for Latinx representation on screen, GDTI will continue to expand Spellcheck for Bias to improve Black and Asian American Pacific Islander representation as well.

Spellcheck for Bias utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze film and television scripts and manuscripts to identify representation of characters and percentage of dialogue by gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, age and body type. It also analyzes unidentified characters along with several other attributes like violence, discrimination and intelligence. Increasing authentic representation and casting opportunities for underrepresented talent is the goal of the tool, which was developed by the Geena Davis Institute in partnership with the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) of USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

GTDI and the Geena Davis Institute initially launched the Spellcheck for Bias pilot with targeting content from Universal Pictures, Focus Features and DreamWorks Animation, and later expanded to include Universal Studio Group and the Entertainment Content Group. This expansion is intended to help content creators and NBCU creative and production executives prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion in the early stages of the development production processes across NBCUniversal’s film, television and streaming portfolio.

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KEYWORDS: bias; hollywood; nbc; racism
If you're wondering why tv and movies now sound like they're written by robots it's because they are.

First we had 'art' by committee. Now we have 'art' by computers.

1 posted on 10/13/2021 12:07:47 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

This will surely grow their audience.


2 posted on 10/13/2021 12:08:49 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: yesthatjallen

So “homo” and “dyke” would be flagged.


3 posted on 10/13/2021 12:11:06 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Soviet entertainment was all party approved dreck. You don’t need AI to write woke garbage


4 posted on 10/13/2021 12:12:46 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: yesthatjallen

What percentage of dialog does a hideously ugly, gender dysphoric, aphroditic, blue-eyed, questioning, non-binary, dwarf, ectomorph get?

I won’t be able to decide whether to see the film if I don’t know.


5 posted on 10/13/2021 12:15:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen

I always thought there was something strange about Geena Davis after seeing “Earth Girls are Easy”


6 posted on 10/13/2021 12:17:32 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

I saw that memo days ago here in Hollywood. The other studios I work for allow us to bypass that idiotic Institute. I’ve met her years ago and she’s an arrogant bitch.


7 posted on 10/13/2021 12:30:12 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Mom & Dad to their daughter home for the holidays from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering:

M&D: "What are you working on at school, dear?"

Woke Daughter Engineer In Training: "I'm on a team developing an AI program that analyzes Hollywood scripts. It makes sure that the characters are properly represented by gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, age and body type. It will increase authentic representation and casting opportunities for underrepresented talent."

M&D: "That's nice. By the way, our financial support for your 'engineering' degree just ended."

8 posted on 10/13/2021 12:30:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen

does this latinX mean they are bisexual or are they trans something or other???


9 posted on 10/13/2021 12:33:49 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Zathras
When she realized she wasn't going to get roles based on looks she branched out.


10 posted on 10/13/2021 12:40:36 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: max americana

Does this mean we can look forward to Cutthroat Island II?


11 posted on 10/13/2021 12:42:22 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Lizavetta
The face that launched a thousand ships,
Is sinking fast, that happens you know,
The water gets below...
12 posted on 10/13/2021 12:43:23 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: yesthatjallen

So now they’re going to check all the garbage they have written to see if it’s biased. It sure is biased! Against White/Christian/Males. But that kind of bias is OK.


13 posted on 10/13/2021 12:50:51 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Buy a Let's Go Brandon! sticker. Show your disdain for the maniac in the White House. I did.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Anyone that has spent a significant amount of time with Susan Sarandon is a damn communist and that includes Gina Davis who costarred in the lesbian romp film ‘Thelma & Louise’ with Susan Sarandon.


14 posted on 10/13/2021 2:02:05 PM PDT by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: Chode

LatinX is a term of cultural imperialism to force those silly little brown people who primitively believe in merely two grammatic genders that they must have at least a Teutonic neuter gender.


15 posted on 10/13/2021 4:57:19 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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To: yesthatjallen
For a minute, I thought this article was written by that AI!

-PJ

16 posted on 10/13/2021 4:59:32 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: KarlInOhio

right? you know no mexkin came up with that...


17 posted on 10/13/2021 5:29:28 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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