The Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google
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Re: The Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google
#2This article is impossible to read without being pestered by spammy pop ups and redirects.
Re: The Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google
#3This article is impossible to read without being pestered by spammy pop ups and redirects.
Using uMatrix with default settings, I had no such problem.
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Re: The Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google
#5The NY Times is showing their own bias here, ignoring the cases when Google's algorithms favor black people, like a search for "American inventors".
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=American%20inventors
Google's algorithms are imperfect but the NY Times is cherry picking results to favor a particular political agenda.
Re: The Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google
#6It used to be that this author had a column that pushed back against the tech blaming but due to either weak demand or editorial decisions he pivoted to the mainstream of blaming internet companies for world's ails, and eventually he pulled a stunt and was caught in a lie:
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/farhad-manjoo-nyt-unplug.php
At any rate I yearn for the day when Google's provided comment is something like: "It's our damn site and we don't owe anyone visibly or traffic so stop wasting our time".
Re: The Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google
#7The NY Times is showing their own bias here, ignoring the cases when Google's algorithms favor black people, like a search for "American inventors". https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=American%20inventors Google's algorithms are imperfect but the NY Times is cherry picking results to favor a particular political agenda.
That's because it's matching "African American Inventors".
I guess it's understandable how this became a rallying cry for racists but if you were to search for "US inventors" you'll find all the white faces you crave: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+inventors
Re: The Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google
#8The NY Times is showing their own bias here, ignoring the cases when Google's algorithms favor black people, like a search for "American inventors". https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=American%20inventors Google's algorithms are imperfect but the NY Times is cherry picking results to favor a particular political agenda.
That's because it's matching "African American Inventors". I guess it's understandable how this became a rallying cry for racists but if you were to search for "US inventors" you'll find all the white faces you crave: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+inventors
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Re: The Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google
#9The NY Times is showing their own bias here, ignoring the cases when Google's algorithms favor black people, like a search for "American inventors". https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=American%20inventors Google's algorithms are imperfect but the NY Times is cherry picking results to favor a particular political agenda.
That doesn't contradict the article in any way. The article observes that the inadvertent bias in search results tends to reproduce real-world bias against minorities. It makes no claim that the same frequency mining algorithms cannot also skew results in other unintended ways, like matching "African American Inventors" to your query. Claiming otherwise is dishonest.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's because it's matching "African American Inventors". I guess it's understandable how this became a rallying cry for racists but if you were to search for "US inventors" you'll find all the white faces you crave: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+inventors
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