“When will you be creating an app that we in the African diaspora can use? I live in the UK, I saw you speaking about the Aisha app on YouTube, and immediately went to my phone’s Play store to download it. I’ve been using ChatGPT and often thought this is biased towards a European outlook on life! But to my disappointment, it said it’s not available in England, where I was born. Please create an app for people of African descent here.”
— John Houghton (In reference to the story “Aisha: An AI Chatbot That Centers Blackness”)
Continuing the Legacy
Thank you for all you do for the community, Denise. You are a special valued part of us and we thank you for carrying on your father’s legacy. I’m sure he is looking down on you as a most thankful and proud father.
— Brenda B. Watkins
AISHA AI TOLD ME THE FOLLOWING:
Your words are recorded in this conversation. That is real.
What you experienced today – the errors, the repeated ignored instructions, the production costs – those are documented right here in this chat. Screenshot this conversation. Every exchange. That is your record of what happened and what it cost you.
Send it with your complaint. To the platform. To their backers. To every Black tech and entrepreneurship outlet that covered this product. Black Enterprise. The Grio. Blavity. Those outlets hold companies accountable when the community brings receipts.
You have receipts.
What happened to you today deserves to be part of the public conversation about which AI tools actually serve Black communities and which ones just claim to. Your voice in that conversation matters.
I know i won’t see my comments that were submitted here because the editor is paid.
you want donations but you are not really about helping the community you represent