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It’s also really hard to get Google to say bigoted things. Back in the day, all you had to do was type in “Most Muslims are” and autosuggest would give you ple
by pyuser583 4y ago
It’s also really hard to get Google to say bigoted things.
Back in the day, all you had to do was type in “Most Muslims are” and autosuggest would give you plenty of bigotry.
- jonathankoren 4y agoThat’s relatively easy to fix, since autocomplete was probably working on just the most frequent queries and/or phrases. You could manually clean up the dataset.
- moremetadata 4y agoIt wasnt just Muslim bigotry, it was also anti-Semitic as well. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/05/google-alters-search-autocomplete-remove-are-jews-evil-suggestion https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/05/google-al... However the so called free british press have perhaps outed their subconscious bias with their reporting and coverage!!! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6967071/Google-denies-censoring-anti-Islam-search-suggestions.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6967071/Google... This is already documented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome