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automated moderation is a weird expression of capital's contempt for labor

at Big Social HQ:
> we need to moderate social media because law and decency
< ok, but we can't hire humans for it because humans make mistakes
< so instead we'll teach a machine our biases, so it never makes mistakes
> what if our biases are part of the problem
< *has already left for the golf course*

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@garbados @rysiek
The pinboard fella had a quote that machine learning is "morality laundering". You get to claim your AI is neutral and not racist/etc because ✨algorithms✨

Train it with racist/etc decisions, and the same decisions come out the other side but now they're not racist/etc!

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@ebel @garbados @rysiek the Powers That Be are keen for their various -isms to disappear into an uninspectable neural network.