YouTube Shorts on AI Bias Are Selling a Fix That Does Not Exist

Short-form content about AI bias has a structural incentive to present the problem as solvable. A video that says 'bias is baked into the economic and political conditions that produced the training data, the labor that labeled it, and the institutions that deployed it' has no call to action and no return viewer. A video that says 'here is the bias, here is the fix' has both. The courier example ^[5] is the clearest case: the AI's choice of image is presented as surprising, as if the systems that produced…