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Claiming the algorithm is racist because your data is racist is inflammatory bullshit. Unless the designers of the system are aware of and account for biases i
by ubernostrum 8y ago
Claiming the algorithm is racist because your data is racist is inflammatory bullshit.
Unless the designers of the system are aware of and account for biases in the training data, the system will be biased and will be biased due to the actions of its designers.
I don't see what's so hard to accept about that. It's literally the oldest problem in computing (going back to the "Pray Mr. Babbage, if we put into your machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out" days).
- andrewguenther 8y agoIs the claim that it is up to the system to detect bias in training data it is given?
- ubernostrum 8y agoMy personal claim is it's up to the people creating and training the system to be aware of biases and to account for that in how they create and train the system. The problem, of course, is how woefully underprepared the average tech person is for realizing the existence of even extremely obvious biases, let alone more subtle and pernicious ones, and a tech culture in which people are lauded for being knee-jerk contrarians on topics like "does our society have a history of systemic racism".