I haven't read every @TayandYou think piece, but I've been simmering on A.I., social media, and corporate responsibility a bit.
-
-
Replying to @aurabogado
If anything I tweet here about
@TayandYou has already been said, sorry. But here's my take: blaming what happened on Twitter is... *shrugs*4 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @aurabogado
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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @aurabogado
I think the responsibility for what happened with
@TayandYou is squarely on@Microsoft. For a lot of reasons.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @aurabogado
For starters,
@Microsoft thought mined our data in order to create@TayandYou. As a woman of color, that alone is alarming to me.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @aurabogado
Surveillance by the state or mining by corporations carry additional risks for people of color.
@Microsoft choose to do it anyway.1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @aurabogado
But it's not just that.
@Microsoft either didn't know about or (more likely) made a decision to ignore Godwin's Law.1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @aurabogado
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.
1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @aurabogado
I mean, any reasonable person online know about this. Yet
@Microsoft still decided it would subject us to racism via@TayandYou?2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes -
Replying to @aurabogado
I'd go as far as to say
@Microsoft's experiment via@TayandYou was legally negligible and cause disproportionate harm to people of color.3 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
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.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.