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Google Pixel 6 event is a woke laughfest
Google | 10/19/2021 | Me

Posted on 10/19/2021 10:48:33 AM PDT by MountainWalker

Started watching the Google Pixel 6 launch event. All of the speakers had their pronouns in a blurb next to their names. Then, they talked about how their cameras have been optimized to shoot underserved people of color. I had no idea that cameras were racist until today.

Needless to say, I won't be buying their stupid phone.


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KEYWORDS: google; googlepixel6; pixel6
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1 posted on 10/19/2021 10:48:33 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: MountainWalker

So, their phones won’t take picture in color, only black and white? or no white, just black?........................


2 posted on 10/19/2021 10:51:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: MountainWalker
optimized to shoot undeserved people of color

So the Google Pixel 6 has been optimized to "shoot" people of color? Sounds like a hate crime to me :)
3 posted on 10/19/2021 10:51:56 AM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: MountainWalker

Like this?..............

4 posted on 10/19/2021 10:52:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: MountainWalker

so they wont be triggered...oh wait that is a gun reference...never mind


5 posted on 10/19/2021 10:53:34 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: MountainWalker

I keep seeing some ad for Google Fi being pitched on YouTube. It manages to be both annoying, yet uninformative.


6 posted on 10/19/2021 10:53:50 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: RBW in PA
Remember it was Google's AI powered search engine which returned pictures of Negroes when given the search term "Gorillas". Seriously. Not a joke.

7 posted on 10/19/2021 10:54:33 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MountainWalker

Where did Google find their ‘underserved people of color’?

Surely not among their engineering staff.


8 posted on 10/19/2021 10:55:43 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MountainWalker

The rule of thumb for photographing dark skin was to open the aperture one f-stop wider than with light skin.


9 posted on 10/19/2021 10:56:30 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: MountainWalker

Waste of time.
Hardly anyone buys Google phones which are made by other companies anyways.


10 posted on 10/19/2021 10:58:13 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: MountainWalker

We don’t have to shoot pocs. They are doing an excellent job of that themselves.


11 posted on 10/19/2021 11:05:35 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Doesn’t the Pixel 6 shoot pics, not pocs? Or is it “shoot a poc pic?”


12 posted on 10/19/2021 11:08:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Right.

I can just see it now...

There’ll be the simultaneous launch of a Pixel user’s video sharing site:

PicPoc


13 posted on 10/19/2021 11:13:52 AM PDT by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: MountainWalker
they talked about how their cameras have been optimized to shoot underserved people of color.

underserved or undeserved?

14 posted on 10/19/2021 11:15:11 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Jeff Chandler

Our HS senior class president was a lovely young man originally from Montserrat (the Caribbean island) and was the blackest person I’ve probably ever seen. Photographers had h*ll to pay to get a decent photo of him in class and sports team pics. Either all the white kids around him were wash-out ghosts, or he was a black cutout figure.


15 posted on 10/19/2021 11:15:31 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: PGR88

I think the take-away here is they’re trying to sell a phone that shoots them!

“Deserves got nuthin’ to do with it...”

AAGGGHHH!!! AI Phone bots are taking over!


16 posted on 10/19/2021 11:17:04 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Jeff Chandler

It was tough to photograph black people when I was an amateur photographer. You had to set up the correct back ground. BUT I don’t think this is what google is talking about. And what is an “underserved” person? We can watch hour after hour of mayhem from “underserved” people.


17 posted on 10/19/2021 11:17:13 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: larrytown
Either all the white kids around him were wash-out ghosts, or he was a black cutout figure.

Back in the old film days, I knew some darkroom tricks to deal with that problem.

18 posted on 10/19/2021 11:26:48 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: MountainWalker

“I had no idea that cameras were racist until today.”

Oh, google got in a bit of hot water a few years ago when their facial recognition software wasn’t working too well for black people...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-photos-mislabels-two-black-americans-as-122793782784.html


19 posted on 10/19/2021 11:35:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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“...their cameras have been optimized to shoot underserved people of color.”

What does the camera do, make them look more ...

white?


20 posted on 10/19/2021 11:49:55 AM PDT by farmguy
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