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Re:An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algori... by KingMob on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @02:25PM (#18666909)
But at the end of the day, humans are still in charge, not algorithms. If they can't adequately control the algorithms, perhaps they're not ready to be deployed.

To see this a little more clearly, if a military deployed autonomous killer robots that kept accidentally killing civilian children, would you then argue the military isn't responsible?

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Re:An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algori... by jeremy7600 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:26PM (#18667435)
false equivalency, no thank you.
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Re:An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algori... by KingMob on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @06:27PM (#18668619)
Ummm, you're the one whose position makes them equivalent. Either humans are responsible for the algorithms they deploy, or they're not. To argue unintended effects can be ignored in one case but not the other is inconsistent.
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