I agree they aren't direct discrimination, but almost anything can constitute indirect discrimination. A poorly localised product can have a disparate impact on foreign users, and as such indirectly discriminate against them.
Even as indirect discrimination, I'm not claiming it rises to the level of being legally actionable – but when OpenAI tries to eradicate subtle bias from an AI model, that's got nothing to do with legally actionable discrimination either, since it would be unlikely to be legally actionable if they decided not to invest in that.
I think one problem with this topic, is a lot of people don't understand the difference between "discrimination", "unethical discrimination", and "illegal discrimination". Some discrimination is both illegal and unethical; some discrimination is legal yet unethical; some discrimination is both legally and ethically justifiable. But many just blur the concepts of "discrimination" and "illegal discrimination" together.
Even as indirect discrimination, I'm not claiming it rises to the level of being legally actionable – but when OpenAI tries to eradicate subtle bias from an AI model, that's got nothing to do with legally actionable discrimination either, since it would be unlikely to be legally actionable if they decided not to invest in that.
I think one problem with this topic, is a lot of people don't understand the difference between "discrimination", "unethical discrimination", and "illegal discrimination". Some discrimination is both illegal and unethical; some discrimination is legal yet unethical; some discrimination is both legally and ethically justifiable. But many just blur the concepts of "discrimination" and "illegal discrimination" together.