Marissa Mayer Defends Using AI to Describe Her Daughter After Backlash
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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer drew criticism on social media after saying she used artificial intelligence to help identify what made her 10-year-old daughter special. In a New York Times interview, Mayer said she had been asked to provide three bullet points about her daughter but drew a blank, so she consulted an AI tool.
According to Fast Company, the tool described her daughter as “empathetic, creative, and an animal lover.” Mayer, who led Yahoo from 2012 to 2017 and later founded an AI company, subsequently defended her use of the technology following the online backlash.
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