Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments
by hyperpape on Saturday August 12, 2017 @08:47PM
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You're jumping to a conclusion that it represents Google's biases. Dan Luu pointed out that it rates "Black Lives Matter" as relatively toxic, but treats "White lives matter" as low on toxicity. I don't think that represents left-wing bias. Really it's just a shitty experiment that wasn't ready to be released to the world.
Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments
by lwansbrough on Saturday August 12, 2017 @07:15PM
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That's not how it works: it's a trained neural network which presumably was trained with as little bias as possible. Try other statements related to the two candidates and you'll find your statement is patently false.
Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments
by andrewprock on Saturday August 12, 2017 @11:47PM
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On the contrary, it was almost certainly computed using supervised training. Some set of people must have selected and labelled the training data. Their biases are cooked directly into the resulting software.
Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments
by yosito on Sunday August 13, 2017 @08:26PM
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Actually neural networks are notorious for having biases. It's ignorant to think that just because it's a machine making the decision instead of a human that it's automatically a fair decision. Google is actually researching the problem of biases in neural networks: https://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discriminat...
Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments
by emerged on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:13PM
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The word "presumably" is probably the point where our interpretations diverge. I don't trust Google's black box AI to be both intentionally and effectively trained in a neutral manner. Further, I don't even think neutrality can exist within subjective filtering as the concept of neutrality itself is perceptually relative.
The terrifying thing is this is likely to become wedged into various internet sites and services where users who don't align with Google's particular biases are effectively forced to conform to them. They are really pressing this sort of power lately and I'm not having it.