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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by user812 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:22PM (#18188024)
The media is no longer reporting things. You can't make money with reporting. The media is actively creating narratives, and one of the narratives that people are fed nowadays is that women are victims.

Men and women are pitted against each other.

Due to the way the media has evolved people consume their own biases and most often just read the headlines.

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by HashHishBang on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:53PM (#18188287)
I mean, yeah you're not wrong. I try not to be too cynical about the whole thing even if I think the narrative is suspect. Yes women and minority representation in tech is a potential issue but I really want to know more about the AI recommendation system for potential hires. Especially if it was giving out spurious recommendations.

It's amazon, I can't imagine how many millions went into something like that. We'll almost certainly not get a postmortem but it's definitely intriguing.

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by njharman on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:03PM (#18190013)
No longer? Read some history, start with yellow journalism and muckraking.

Learning history will teach you more about things today than any news source.

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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ... by rrcaptain on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:32PM (#18190627)
The media has always been about narratives.
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