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Exactly. I found it very dishonest that the author is trying to imply that what happened to Tay was due to developers being biased.

• jakelazaroff 7y ago
  You don’t think developers can program defensively against their ML Twitter bot picking up racism?
  • Buge 7y ago
    Just because a developer doesn't intentionally put in code to block racism doesn't mean the developer is biased.
    • bsanr 7y ago
      Doesn't it? Neglect when you otherwise would take care is evidence of bias.
      • deleted 7y ago
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      • Buge 7y ago
        They didn't put in code to block Tay from promoting cryptocurrency ponzi schemes, does that mean the developers support cryptocurrency ponzi schemes? If "otherwise take care" means block every form of bad thing, they aren't otherwise taking care.
  • macspoofing 7y ago
    No. Not against racism specifically, but against being gamed by trolls. In this case, there's nothing special about racism. If it wasn't that, the trolls would have gamed the chatbot to have it push anti-vaxxer talking points, or moon-hoax conspiracies, or just some random garbage.