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Fully automated data driven authoritarianism ain’t what it’s cracked up to be

• andyjohnson0 3y ago
  "He starts with a dataset of 10 million Chinese social media posts from Weibo (think Twitter with Chinese characteristics). And then he applies an actual real political sensitivity model from a Chinese social media company (which unsurprisingly goes unnamed) to score how spicy the content is. I’ve no idea how he got this model, and I imagine he has excellent reason not to tell, but it allows him to approximate the actual machine learning techniques used by actual Chinese censors. His core finding is that machine learning bias is an enormous problem for censorship regimes"