Product Management

Should we change history to include more people? I see many, including @elonmusk, who are decrying Google's latest AI which changes historical scenes and depictions to change white male people to others. It's almost like people are proud of our racist past, which included slavery. I want you to look at this photo. It is of the final completion of the transcontinental railroad. This event gave Leland Stanford the wealth to start Silicon Valley. But where are the people who actually built the railroad? Mostly Chinese crews built it. Where are they? Racist attitudes that existed at the time kept them out of the party, and out of the photo. The Chinese that built the railroad were no ordinary workers. They were explosive pioneers, true innovators. They set the record for most miles of track laid in one day. Maybe someone should take out the white people, who didn't build the railroad, and put the people who actually did build the railroad, in instead. See, I'm one of those "woke" people. If you study history you will see many such examples where white people made the history to only include them. So now if AI goes too far the other way and makes scenes and history include others don't expect me to join in your crying. If it makes you feel better about yourself, go ahead and call me "woke." But photos and other historical accounts/documents have often been lies that reflect racist attitudes. If you are gonna get mad about Google, well, then, you should be mad about this. But the "anti-woke" crowd is not. Which tells me all I need to know.