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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by fny on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:58AM (#23697887)
It is not legal to make such a map. In practice, production actuarial systems for loans need to be interpretable and auditable, so this argument is moot.
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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by danielheath on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:20AM (#23698341)
In practice, multiple advertisers have been in trouble for breaking this class of rule in the past 2 years. That's not some long-forgotten problem, it's current.

If neural nets provide a way maintain plausible deniability while breaking the rules, it's going to get used.

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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by andreig2191 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:48PM (#23709436)
I'm not sure neural nets provide plausible deniability. The NN can be proven to be discriminatory.
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