Algorithms aren't shaped just by what we want but also by what the company wants from us. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-facebook.html …pic.twitter.com/JvGr5qdZDO
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Algorithms aren't shaped just by what we want but also by what the company wants from us. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-facebook.html …pic.twitter.com/JvGr5qdZDO
Hey, everyone asking me if media really reports algorithms as neutral "with no human judgment." Yes, yes, they do.pic.twitter.com/utsikyGNcF
Misunderstanding one: algorithms involve no human judgment. Also not really: algorithms reflect unconscious human biases.
Even Glenn Beck confused by claim Facebook is biased against conspiracy theorists like him. https://medium.com/@glennbeck/what-disturbed-me-about-the-facebook-meeting-3bbe0b96b87f#.9pkcc3fj6 …pic.twitter.com/JXl5CWUTyL
283 items on Facebook's & conservatives.
The real issue is the clicky, quarrelsome, upbeat biases of its algorithm.pic.twitter.com/oxxYriYC4m
I wrote about of Facebook but this applies to all subjective decision-making by algorithm. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/opinion/the-real-bias-built-in-at-facebook.html …pic.twitter.com/JI2upDV8VF
I focus on Facebook because it's consequential but also because it's a familiar example for computational decision-making. Issue is wider.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kara Swisher
Thank you! These algorithms have big feedback loops—leading to algorithmic spirals of silence and winner-takes-most.https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/733594708392316928 …
zeynep tufekci added,
CS friends. I DO wish another word besides "algorithm" had emerged to mean complex opaque proprietary decision-making by computation. Alas.
There are many words. "Algorithm" is problematic-as someone sympathetic to your concerns, I still cringe at the abuse of terminology
What word? I'd jump at one that expresses the sentiment. I get the difference between heapsort and this stuff.
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