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Co-founder @iqlusioninc, formerly @square. Cryptography and infrastructure engineer. Polyglot programmer. Makes music as @djcofactor. He/Him/They

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    Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 19

    Trying a horrible experiment... Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama?pic.twitter.com/bR1GRyCkia

    3:05 PM - 19 Sep 2020
    • 63,853 Retweets
    • 198,018 Likes
    • Rush Tehrani deborah moree Quarciso Jake, from statefarm John Mungai Adrien Fabre Sienna Shepherd Parakram S. Rajawat Jimmy Wilson #BLM
    2,865 replies 63,853 retweets 198,018 likes
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      2. Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 19

        "It's the red tie! Clearly the algorithm has a preference for red ties!" Well let's see...pic.twitter.com/l7qySd5sRW

        80 replies 3,085 retweets 26,687 likes
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      3. Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 19

        Let's try inverting the colors... (h/t @KnabeWolf)pic.twitter.com/5hW4owmej2

        161 replies 3,179 retweets 28,633 likes
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      4. Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 20

        Twitter is just one example of racism manifesting in machine learning algorithms. Other examples: Millions of Black people affected by racist healthcare algorithms: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6 … Racist predictive policing algorithms: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predictive-policing-algorithms-racist-dismantled-machine-learning-bias-criminal-justice/ …

        55 replies 1,989 retweets 7,353 likes
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      5. Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 20

        Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀 Retweeted Mitch Benn 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

        https://twitter.com/mitchbenn/status/1307573944564822016?s=21 …

        Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀 added,

        Mitch Benn 🇬🇧 🇪🇺Verified account @MitchBenn
        Replying to @himgajria @bascule
        Something doesn’t have to be “designed to be racist” to be racist.
        20 replies 248 retweets 3,839 likes
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      6. Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 21

        Several replies have tried all sorts of meticulous tweaking to get different results. This misses the original point of my experiment: I just tried to find two relatively similar looking images and (earnestly) see what the results were.

        1 reply 10 retweets 218 likes
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      7. Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 21

        Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀 Retweeted TheArtGun COMMS CLOSED

        Several people have attributed the issue to contrast, dramatically raising the contrast on Obama and decreasing it until McConnell is a dull grey. While this may get the algorithm to select the other image, it doesn't address the core problem.https://twitter.com/TheArtGun/status/1307508831363104768 …

        Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀 added,

        TheArtGun COMMS CLOSED @TheArtGun
        Replying to @bascule
        What if we adjust the contrast pic.twitter.com/eo2MqNVmXS
        7 replies 42 retweets 320 likes
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      8. Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 21

        Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀 Retweeted Michael Robinson

        These images in particular, comparing low contrast to high contrast Obama, are much more telling. The algorithm seems to prefer a lighter Obama over a darker one:https://twitter.com/m8rbnsn/status/1307801582411689984 …

        Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀 added,

        Michael Robinson @m8rbnsn
        Replying to @TwitterComms
        pic.twitter.com/df0AOfv4Vy
        9 replies 94 retweets 489 likes
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      9. Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 21

        Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀 Retweeted Prof. Anima Anandkumar

        If you're interested in this topic in general please follow: @AnimaAnandkumar director AI research at nVidia / pointed out this issue in 2019: https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/1307465594304974848 … @ruha9 author: Race After Technology @jovialjoy founder: Algorithmic Justice League

        Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀 added,

        Prof. Anima Anandkumar @AnimaAnandkumar
        I had tweeted in 2019 about @Twitter cropping #womeninAI headless while cropping men correcting. When I raised this, many men in field accused me of making up a non-existent issue just to gain attention. Sadly #AI #bias is not yet fixed. https://twitter.com/VentureBeat/status/1080485485473083392 …
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        4 replies 34 retweets 190 likes
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      10. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2. Andrew Miller  🦓 🦓 🦓‏ @socrates1024 Sep 19
        Replying to @bascule

        holy cow.... tell me this is a metadata trick or something...

        8 replies 7 retweets 631 likes
      3. Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri  🦀‏ @bascule Sep 19
        Replying to @socrates1024

        Not deliberate at all. Just what the algorithm picked...

        8 replies 8 retweets 1,133 likes
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