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Re:Ellen Ullman on the importance of making algorithms acces... by torpcoms on Friday November 24, 2017 @07:56AM (#15770801)
> may not be algorithmically optimal, but better meet the needs of the community

Yeah, that sounds a bit like a blank check for someone to corrupt the generated output under the guise of a nebulous "It's better for our community" while scaremongering about the big bad algorithm.

Re:Ellen Ullman on the importance of making algorithms acces... by nhebb on Friday November 24, 2017 @07:08PM (#15773713)
Corruption could happen in any case, but I still agree with having human oversight [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong