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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by anonytrary on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:44PM (#18965304)
It's not lying. Maybe it's being wrong, maybe it's negligence, but it's not lying. It's not like they're trying to display the wrong information. The algorithm isn't a person. It's not as simple as saying "oh, our algorithm messed up, we'll kindly tell it to say that you live over there from now on".

I wouldn't call it lying, I'd call it a sub-optimal algorithm design.

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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by zrth on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:04PM (#18965436)
Generally, the person or group of people behind an algorithm needs to be fully accountable and responsible for the algorithm they use to interact with the world.

If saying: "it's not me, it's the algorithm" gets you out of the responsibility you can do all kinds of morally questionable things.

(edit: grammeer)

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Re:Google: Please Stop Telling Lies About Me by myownlittlworld on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:28PM (#18965539)
"It's not me, it's the killbot algorithm I designed, patented, and licensed!"

In seriousness, though, I agree and we're already way behind the eight-ball on this one, given predictive policing and bail algorithms.

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