Silicon Valley Is Inserting Its Biases into Nearly Every Technology We Use

Re:Silicon Valley Is Inserting Its Biases into Nearly Every ... by nitwit005 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:41PM (#15444258)

I've seen a lot of articles making this suggestion, but never do they seem to actually check if the software was indeed written by white men. It's as if they don't want their biases contradicted by evidence.

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Re:Silicon Valley Is Inserting Its Biases into Nearly Every ... by wtflmaohnisdumb on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:32PM (#15444679)

Who the biased algorithms are written by are pretty irrelevant. The argument is they are biased against anyone who is not a white male, and that we should be aware of that.

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Re:Silicon Valley Is Inserting Its Biases into Nearly Every ... by nitwit005 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @04:39PM (#15445131)

The article has a hypothesis right in the headline: "algorithmic bias is a result of the insular, mostly white tech industry". So no, if it was written by an entirely Indian staff at an Indian outsourcing company, that would discredit the idea.

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