My PhD student Akhila's been doing some incredible cultural work in the last few years! Check out out latest work on cultural safety and hand gestures, showing most vision and/or language AI systems are very cross-culturally unsafe!
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Akhila Yerukola
Did you know? Gestures used to express universal concepts—like wishing for luck—vary DRAMATICALLY across cultures?
🤞means luck in US but deeply offensive in Vietnam 🚨
📣 We introduce MC-SIGNS, a test bed to evaluate how LLMs/VLMs/T2I handle such nonverbal behavior!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17710
🤞means luck in US but deeply offensive in Vietnam 🚨
📣 We introduce MC-SIGNS, a test bed to evaluate how LLMs/VLMs/T2I handle such nonverbal behavior!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17710
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