Machine learning is new. It is quirky and surprising. Its consequences when we stick it into a feedback loop involving humans are wild and unpredictable. We barely know how to •think• about this stuff, much less what to •do• about it.
I don’t know exactly what Google should do. I don’t have all the answers.
But I do know that throwing up their hands ain’t it.
The First Amendment requires Google to take up their responsibility, and deal with the shit they’re pumping through their pipes.
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