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I'm surprised that the complaint is about getting paid, rather than pointing out that Upwork facilitated an illegal and immoral system to be built. You don't ge
by rahimiali 7y ago
I'm surprised that the complaint is about getting paid, rather than pointing out that Upwork facilitated an illegal and immoral system to be built. You don't get to use "demographic information" like "race" or "age" or probably many of the columns the post mentions to make hiring decisions. For the sake of the jobs industry, the author should change their post to say this.
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- human20190310 7y agoEthics aside, you'd think a company concerned about simply covering its ass would explicitly remove demographic information from the analysis, to avoid the possibility of it influencing the categorizations.
- TrackerFF 7y agoI feel there's such a huge potential for serious sampling bias in data like that, I wouldn't be comfortable to train classifiers on it. Any company with dubious ethics could easily manipulate the data (collection) to match their intentions.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoThings like job performance usually have a subjective component, so the training data will already have human bias built in without any intentional manipulation.