My first AI model crash was a wake-up call

I trained it on messy data for weeks, and it failed in real use. Now I see how crucial clean inputs are, something we took for granted back then.

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fionajenkins13d ago

Hold up, clean inputs were always key, not something we just figured out later.

simonsingh13d ago

Remember thinking it was just about the model until @fionajenkins pointed this out. Used to dump messy data in and wonder why things went weird. Totally changed how I start any project now.

the_olivia8d ago

Yeah I was just reading about how garbage data trains biased models, like that Wired piece on facial recognition failing on darker skin tones. They traced it back to totally uncurated training sets. It's wild how the whole "garbage in, garbage out" thing gets ignored until it blows up publicly.