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Its more about knowing whether the algorithm isnt politically rigged to engineer public opinion by amplifying certain truths and decreasing visibility of other
by lamp987 5y ago
Its more about knowing whether the algorithm isnt politically rigged to engineer public opinion by amplifying certain truths and decreasing visibility of other truths.
- monkeybutton 5y agoSince I don't have any insight into their algorithm I'm going to use a naive hypothetical example: Say they did have a system to downrank negative/harmful/spammy content and it works by applying some kind of embedding model to posts and comparing their cosine similarity to a dictionary of known bad content. You have the code, but neither the trained model for doing embeddings nor the set of "bad" vectors. Can you answer the question: Is it politically rigged? That's why I tend to be in agreement with the idea of treating it as a black box and observing what biases it exhibits.