“Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what Facebook is doing nowadays.”
“It was just after sundown when a man knocked on Steve Talley’s door in south Denver. The man claimed to have hit Talley’s silver Jeep Cherokee and asked him to assess the damage. So Talley, wearing boxers and a tank top, went outside to take a look.”
“Every day we make countless decisions and judgements about people’s character, abilities, and potential, without realizing it. Researchers call this “unconscious bias.”
“Back in 2013, a handful of researchers at Google set loose a neural network on a corpus of three million words taken from Google News texts. The neural net’s goal was to look for patterns in the way words appear next to each other.”
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“Earlier this year, Facebook denied criticisms that its Trending feature was surfacing news stories that were biased against conservatives.”
Read: Facebook fires human editors, algorithm immediately posts fake news
“Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May.”
Read: Facebook is trying to get rid of bias in Trending news by getting rid of humans
“The crowdsourced database that was use to seed locations to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go came from early augmented reality games that were played by overwhelmingly affluent (and thus, disproportionately white) people, who, in an increasingly racially segregated America, are less and less likely to v”
“The crowdsourced database that was use to seed locations to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go came from early augmented reality games that were played by overwhelmingly affluent (and thus, disproportionately white) people, who, in an increasingly racially segregated America, are less and less likely to v”
“ACCORDING to some prominent voices in the tech world, artificial intelligence presents a looming existential threat to humanity: Warnings by luminaries like Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom about “the singularity” — when machines become smar”
“About a yr ago I changed my profile pic to me in a cap n gown after several rejections to rent. No results. @GeeDee215 #AirbnbWhileBlack”