Oh, what, wow, umm. "Facebook gets rid of human vetting to avoid responsibility for whatever ends up in trends."https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/769339937623859200 …
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Replying to @zeynep
You can't get rid of "bias" if there is judgment and selection. Machine or human. You can have criteria that is seen as fair, or not.
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But Facebook's description of the changes isn't "getting rid of humans to eliminate bias." Just not using people to write descriptions.
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I think this change is less to do with bias, more to do with costs, speed & scaling trends (which are algorithmically personalized anyway).
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Not about bias. Facebook fired the team that looked if topics were actual news—now making engineers do the same job.pic.twitter.com/cr68xnJ8m6
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Seems FB kept key components: algorithmically surfacing topics (some form of tf-idf) and algorithmically personalizing list on p(click).
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The only change is trend descriptions will no longer be writted by humans. They will be less useful but FB can do it faster at bigger scale.
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Kind of telling there were just 15 humans in that job in the first place.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound like a reasonable pace.
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