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A comment on TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor. Parent comment

Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by detaro on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:33PM (#22611306)
How are algorithms a "layer of abstraction" for guidelines given to human moderators?
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by bronipstid on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:39PM (#22611345)
I think his point is that if people set the objectives, the AI will learn what people like, and that is going to be discriminatory in some way.
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Re:TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people... by im3w1l on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @06:45PM (#22611394)
The difference is that a person with some flaw can compensate by having other qualities and still be popular. But if there is a hard rule, then that's not possible.

People need that hope.

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