Meta Mistake - Social Media Is Sucio

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status...99890808000513

[NynJa]

[Salodin]

https://twitter.com/that_gai_gai/sta...706352129?s=19

Something something, its about race but it isn't racism, something etc

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[Athas]

i would suspect this is more of a technical issue than a racist discrimination issue. The Kinect had the same problem when it launched because dark skin is harder for the computer to separate from shadows/backgrounds, which, when you run that through a learning algorithm, teaches the computer a bias toward white faces. Facial recognition is not a mature technology, despite its deployment.

A problem who's solution would be to have more persons of color in development/testing seems to be a problem that's at least rooted in systemic biases.

[Qalbert]

[Salodin]

Accidental racism is still racism, fyi

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[BaneTheBrawler]

racial bias is not the same thing as racism, fyi

[Yabby]

God damn this was a great show.

[Karbuncle]

Damn computer algorithms and their accidental racism. When will Skynet stop keeping the black man down?

[Krandor]

Damn computer algorithms and their accidental racism. When will Skynet stop keeping the black man down?

I dunno skynet not being able to see black people sounds like a win. Natural camouflage against the terminators baby

[NynJa]

I dunno skynet not being able to see black people sounds like a win. Natural camouflage against the terminators baby

[Ayn]

God damn this was a great show.

I just came in to second this.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/stat...68607703195649

[Karbuncle]

That was a pretty interesting read, if not a little on the long side, worth it though.

[Byrthnoth]

That's pretty much as I expected and I don't think I gained anything from reading it.

If he had a recording of Zuck saying that they were lobbying Trump to get him to ban Tiktok, then it would be srs news.

[Byrthnoth]

Ebay has always been weird and perhaps their management is just atrocious:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/t...g-scandal.html

[Qalbert]

crossposting this link from the Trump thread
https://www.channel4.com/news/reveal...voting-in-2016

The Trump campaign spent £44 million on Facebook ads alone during 2016, posting almost six million different versions of highly targeted messages that were pumped directly into the feeds of target voters across America, helped by a Facebook employee embedded within the Trump campaign.

But many of the ads were so called ‘dark posts’, which could vanish from recipients’ feeds once a campaign stopped paying for them.

It means no complete public record exists of the ads posted on Facebook during the 2016 campaign or the audience lists used to target voters. The platform offered no ‘Ad Library’ at the time.

Without Facebook or the campaign itself revealing the information, it means it’s not possible to ascertain exactly how potential voters in the ‘Deterrence’ group may have been targeted on Facebook.

The Trump campaign itself has categorically stated that it did not target African Americans.

Brad Parscale, the campaign’s 2016 digital director told PBS Frontline: “I would say I’m nearly 100 percent sure we did not run any campaigns that targeted even African Americans.”

But Channel 4 News has uncovered evidence that the campaign did target Black voters with negative ads designed to crush Hillary Clinton’s turnout.

These included videos featuring Hillary Clinton referring to Black youths as “super predators” which aired on television 402 times in October 2016 and received millions of views on Facebook.

In one confidential document seen by Channel 4 News, Cambridge Analytica admitted the Trump campaign did target “AA” (African Americans) with what it called the “Predators video” – spending $55,000 USD in the state of Georgia alone.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/...33185198440451

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/JimmyJazz1968/st...43539920531457

[NynJa]

Literal cancer.