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this is a very cogent point. algorithims act as a layer of abstraction and somehow gives people an escape for moral culpability. i wonder what facebooks algorit
by kryogen1c 7y ago
this is a very cogent point. algorithims act as a layer of abstraction and somehow gives people an escape for moral culpability. i wonder what facebooks algorithms would have done during US slavery, in nazi germany, during the apartheid, or any other (countless) horriffic human event?
no doubt we will hoist pitchforks at tiktok for being authoritarian chinese and neglect our own senseless populism.
- detaro 7y agoHow are algorithms a "layer of abstraction" for guidelines given to human moderators?
- bronipstid 7y agoI think his point is that if people set the objectives, the AI will learn what people like, and that is going to be discriminatory in some way.
- im3w1l 7y agoThe difference is that a person with some flaw can compensate by having other qualities and still be popular. But if there is a hard rule, then that's not possible. People need that hope.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoI wonder if racists get friend suggestions for people who aren't their "race" in appearance terms; I'm imagining that could be an emergent selection not explicitly encoded for. If that were the case ... would it be so different to people making that selection. It's a question of allowance vs. instigation I suppose ... but if you knew that behaviour was likely to emerge then the line gets blurred somewhat ...
- anigbrowl 7y agoRarely. I operate several facebook profiles that exclusively look at very racist or politically extreme people, and guess who FB keeps recommending as potential friends.
- chillwaves 7y agoWhy?