Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money?
by parasubvert on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @10:20AM
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But some human made that algorithm. ML models are alchemy, no one understands how they work fundamentally, so they're very susceptible to human bias. James Mickens USENIX '18 keynote is a great laugh/cry view of this.
Regulations mandating a support channel of some sort is reasonable.
Also, I don't think it's reasonable to say a person needs to be free of ALL those companies. Decentralized for-profit organizations are how we get things done as a society, mostly. Pick the companies you trust/value. My point was mostly about avoiding ad-revenue-driven companies.
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money?
by hellotomyrars on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:13PM
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I think then we are actually a lot more on the same page. Not the read I got initially but this is my general feeling on the issue. Appreciate the discourse.
I don’t even think the problem is that the company is made of humans. The problem is that when the black box algorithm makes a decision that locks someone out of their account or some service/feature there is no recourse. The humans are the solution to the problem, but you can’t get them to look at it unless you have a platform to stand on. It’s disgusting.