I #AmReading #WeaponsOfMathDestruction.
Rarely a book pisses me off so much, especially considering how much worse everything is 7 years later.
On my reading list - 3 books on understanding and resisting #Enshittification, but it's all such hard work😣
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547420/algorithms-of-resistance/
- https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/304513/weapons-of-math-destruction-by-oneil-cathy/9780141985411
Thank you Elizabeth, The tag #WeaponsOfMathDestruction. shows up some interesting comments on it.
I #AmReading #WeaponsOfMathDestruction.
Rarely a book pisses me off so much, especially considering how much worse everything is 7 years later.
Recently when I deleted my bird-site profile, I noticed that in the settings, it was recorded as "Gender - Male".
I never set my gender in such profiles - after all, my avatar is a coffee cup, coffee is surely gender-neutral.
So it makes me think the algorithm looked at posts re #coffee and #science and said -> male.
Problematic enough, but then it put the faulty logic straight into the settings. Yes I can correct it (if necessary) but that is not the point.
#WeaponsofMathDestruction
Este aparente deslumbramento com tudo o que tenha AI, preocupa-me.
A WMD uncovered in the wild! This is incredible stuff.
https://mastodon.social/@couts/109976610606209048
#weaponsofmathdestruction #discrimination #ethics #design #programming #ML
From Australia to the United States, welfare fraud algorithms sold on claims that they make governments more efficient have made people’s lives worse.
In the Netherlands, Rotterdam’s algorithmic troubles have run in parallel with a nationwide machine learning scandal.
https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-algorithms-discrimination/