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So assuming this was a mistaken classification that happened naturally and not the result of someone purposefully training the system to do this... does this me
by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
So assuming this was a mistaken classification that happened naturally and not the result of someone purposefully training the system to do this... does this mean we need to teach these systems to be politically correct? Confusing a dog and a goat doesn't carry the same potential to cause extreme negative publicity that an error like this does, especially when the system works well enough that most other classification attempts are correct.
- SmokyBourbon 11y ago$ npm install socialjustice@0.2.1 npm http GET https://reddit.com/censorship https://reddit.com/censorship npm http GET https://anitasarkeesian.com/triggers https://anitasarkeesian.com/triggers npm http GET https://huffingtonpost.com/secretmailinglist https://huffingtonpost.com/secretmailinglist Checking privilege.... npm !ERR white males found npm !ERR not ok code 0 $
- fwn 11y agoWe are affected by this mistake because we are socialised to be offended and outraged by labeling we perceive as offensive. We do this to substitute an impossible external enforcer (of common norms) with an internal, distributed one. It is tough, emotional work to understand that there is no need to punish an algorithm. I guess it takes time and additional norms (e.g. devs saying they are sorry, etc..) to adapt to this new existence of semiautomatic affronts.
- minikites 11y agoI think a possible root to the problem is the general lack of diversity in tech. A bug that confuses white people for goats will be caught sooner than a bug that mistakes black people for gorillas because there are more white people around to notice that problem. It wouldn't surprise me if the initial test data included few to no non-white people.