"But adding more unreliable data to an unreliable dataset doesn't improve its reliability. GIGO is the iron law of computing, and you can't repeal it by shoveling more garbage into the top of the training funnel"
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/
#ai
Pluralistic: The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships (26 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

More: ""empiricism washing": take a biased procedure and feed it to an algorithm, and then you get to go and do more biased procedures, and whenever anyone accuses you of bias, you can insist that you're just following an empirical conclusion of a neutral algorithm, because "math can't be racist."
#EmpiricismWashing #dataBias #AI