I haven't read every @TayandYou think piece, but I've been simmering on A.I., social media, and corporate responsibility a bit.
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It's true that Twitter should be accountable to its users. But we already know it isn't, and hasn't been for a while. But
@TayandYou is new. -
I think the responsibility for what happened with
@TayandYou is squarely on@Microsoft. For a lot of reasons. -
For starters,
@Microsoft thought mined our data in order to create@TayandYou. As a woman of color, that alone is alarming to me. -
Surveillance by the state or mining by corporations carry additional risks for people of color.
@Microsoft choose to do it anyway. -
But it's not just that.
@Microsoft either didn't know about or (more likely) made a decision to ignore Godwin's Law. -
Godwin's Law dates back at least two decades: http://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/all/1 …. It's also the known experience of people of color.
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I mean, any reasonable person online know about this. Yet
@Microsoft still decided it would subject us to racism via@TayandYou? -
I'd go as far as to say
@Microsoft's experiment via@TayandYou was legally negligible and cause disproportionate harm to people of color. -
But I'm just a brown chick on the internets;
@Microsoft never intended to be accountable to me. That's part of what makes@TayandYou scary.
End of conversation
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