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This two comment exchange is straight out of a dystopian novel. This is where we are.
by 5trokerac3 9y ago
This two comment exchange is straight out of a dystopian novel. This is where we are.
- Spivak 9y agoIt's really not all that dystopian, anyone who even wanted to analyze hate speech would probably derive such a system since it's difficult to define precisely. ML always contains the biases of the training set. It's not some magical unbiased 'objective' system. For language at least it seems to devolve to a fancy keyword search.
- jcims 9y agoSure, but it's still essentially a supervised learning process with select (biased) humans doing the labeling.
- marrs 9y agoAnyone who thinks it's normal to want to analyse "hate speech" is already living the dystopian dream. 10 years earlier, the people who were deeply concerned that such a vague and ill-defined term had just entered the legal lexicon were all but ignored.
- jlebrech 9y agothe false positives is "Brazil"-esque