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by catach 758 days ago
We won't, because the machines are trained on data created by humans.

We won't, because the machine results people want will be those that appeal to their biases.

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Exactly. And it’s not even a new phenomenon, we know our algorithms are biased.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predicti...

> We won't, because the machine results people want will be those that appeal to their biases.

When you see an idea pushed/accelerated to an absurd conclusion, you might more easily see what's wrong with it.

You won’t. That’s why Poe’s law is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

Possibly, possibly. But those extremes are not what you get from an effective bias appeal.