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What percentage of people in the openly available mugshot database were people of colour, and why should that not be relevant?
by hanselot 8y ago
What percentage of people in the openly available mugshot database were people of colour, and why should that not be relevant?
- bunderbunder 8y agoIt's relevant, but not as an excuse to dismiss the problem. One of the perennial problems with machine learning is that it has a tendency to intensify pre-existing biases in the system. It's not just that the algorithm tends to reflect biases in the source data, it's that that reflection tends to encourage the people using the system, who generally have some role in creating that source data in the first place, to become even more biased.
- hanselot 8y agobiasception. This can be the title of a new film where ai-powered echo chambers produce progressively more polarized societies until civil war and anarchy destroy all of humankind. Oh wait, this might just be reality already.
- bunderbunder 8y agoSociety's honestly not becoming particularly polarized, on anything remotely like a historical scale. To take US history, for example, I can think of several times in the past century alone that the public sphere was more acrimonious. I haven't made much of a study of primary sources, but I wouldn't be surprised if a common thing that happened every one of those times was that people would start trying to figure out how to turn "appeal to acrimony" into a convincing debate tactic.
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