The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics

Director Valerie Veatch's documentary 'Ghost in the Machine' traces generative AI's roots back to Victorian-era eugenics, arguing that race science has fundamentally shaped today's AI technology. After encountering pervasive racism and sexism in AI-generated outputs while experimenting with OpenAI's Sora, Veatch was driven to explore how the term 'artificial intelligence' originated as a marketing phrase and how historical biases became embedded in the technology.