Sounds like the chicken and the egg. Game makers use in-game micro transactions because people just steal the game/ don't want to pay for a game, and you say you steal the game because they use micro transactions. More likely, studios produces shitty games because people still support them and it's an easy model, and people steal games because they don't want to pay for stuff.
Better solution is to support indie devs that produce good games and stop supporting/stealing/playing the shitty studio games.
Those are used in full price games. Its because they extract much greater amounts of money form player base.
So that is weak argument for all those starving game-makers.
Sure some smaller ones are hurting from the piracy, but people who pirate are usually ones who don't have money to buy games in a first place.
When i was young I pirated games as we were poor. Now I don't pirate because its more convenient for me to just buy things I like.
It's not apparent that the protest caused this sort of growth in infection. Plus you'd expect to see growth occuring simultaneously in places like New York and Seattle, which just isn't the case like Florida, Arizona, and Texas.
The article highlights dataset biases that reinforce existing biases in society. It becomes a problem when ML affects the real world. See e.g. predictive policing [1].
The sex ratio at birth is actually slightly biased towards men, it takes a few decades to even out. Globally, there are also more men than women, but that's partly due to China and India being artificial outliers, in most countries, women outnumber men.
White women are the largest demographic in the US, but the US is only a small fraction of the world population. There are more Asian women in the world than there are men & women in the US and Europe combined, but this software fails miserably on Asian women as shown in the article.
