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It is not a disingenuous question, it actually comes down to a question of ethics. Why would anyone with any sense of accuracy allow fiction to influence a dec
by protomyth 9y ago
It is not a disingenuous question, it actually comes down to a question of ethics. Why would anyone with any sense of accuracy allow fiction to influence a decision being made about a person’s life?
The more talk about how people are building models, the more I want people to take these black boxes to court to force developers to explain how decisions are made.
Refusing to give someone a loan because someone trained a model with 50 Shades of Grey is unethical and insane.
- rcthompson 9y agoOf course it's unethical and insane. But the point is that people are going to look at the performance numbers for the model, and if they look good, they're not going to ask how it was trained. So the fact that fiction writing was used to train the model will never come up in the discussion about whether to use it.
- AstralStorm 9y agoThe other question is what market will be for people who do not for well in most models? Will we get a freshly made new underclass? Just take a look at people called "Null" then multiply the problem thousand times across various systems with no central appeal.
- ben_w 9y agoPeople don’t usually look that deeply into the consequences of their choices. Is it ethical to invest in land mines? I’d say not, but when I last put money into a high interest savings account, I didn’t know if my bank had done that for me and it didn’t occur to me to ask.