Skin Color vs Race

Discussions debate whether skin color equates to race, its relevance to privilege or bias, and if mentioning it is racist, often in AI facial recognition or diversity contexts.

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OK AI US e.g skin skin color color black white tone race racist colored person

Sample Comments

DuskStar Aug 10, 2020 View on HN

Unless you're black or some other 'colonized' skin color, of course.

anon12345690 Jan 19, 2019 View on HN

by looking up to people based on character instead of skin colorthat would solve the problem

ciphol Mar 16, 2022 View on HN

Their skin is too dark.(/s or whatever the appropriate way is of disassociating myself from this idea)

nightcracker Apr 2, 2014 View on HN

What if I told you that your skin color is not the same as race?

Zababa Oct 12, 2021 View on HN

Try your reasoning with how people call people with a different skin color and you'll understand the problem.

exporectomy Sep 14, 2021 View on HN

Skin color isn't race. I would expect this AI to detect your white-skinned friend as black because all his other traits would be black-like.

pcf Aug 18, 2023 View on HN

They said nothing about skin colour. You are seemingly more fixated on this than the other person.

InvertedRhodium Apr 21, 2021 View on HN

Why would the color of their skin have anything to do with it?

antiquark Dec 29, 2022 View on HN

Wouldn't this actually be a melanin bias?

ripped_britches Nov 14, 2025 View on HN

Person of color is very different than colored