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Remember how we had uncle Ben's rice and Autn Jemima with the black avatars representing their brand? I noticed that these AI drive throughs use the voice of a young black kid. Isn't it just more of the same? Exploit young black kids for decades, throw them away but steal their voice for an AI Chat. Kinda fucked up imo
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.
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.