I would simply not build shitty systems, but the problem is this same strategy often indicts purely human systems and this is weirdly unpopular in tech discourse.
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Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 04:08:07 JST Matthew Lyon @Elucidating I suspect one of the larger trends we’re going to see from this sort of thing – especially _outside_ tech – is an attempt to launder accountability for the design of these systems: “oh we didn’t mean to [deny credit, employment, insurance, etc], the algorithm did it” because for some reason people don’t seem to understand that algorithms are ideological
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⛈️ Information ⛈️ (elucidating@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 04:08:08 JST ⛈️ Information ⛈️ The way a lot of folks talk about "accountability" in AI is kinda scary sometimes. Like the primary goal is to have someone to punish for a mistake rather than going, "Oh this is a systemic problem."
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