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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads(futurism.com)

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Captain Janeway@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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The most generous assumption is that they use statistics to determine correlations like this (e.g., deleted selfies resulted in a high CTR for beauty ads so they made that a part of their algo). The least generous interpretation is exactly what you’re thinking: an asshole came up with it because it’s logical and effective.

Either way, ethics needs to be a bigger part of the programmers education. And we, as a society, need to make algorithms more transparent (at least social media algorithms). Reddit’s trending algorithm used to be open source during the good ole days.

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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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Can you make the algorithm open source that determined it was ok for you to murder Tuvix tho

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Captain Janeway@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Iheartcheese@lemmy.worldOP
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JANEWAY DID WHAT SHE HAD TO DO

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OpenStars@piefed.social
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Are you sure that you don’t already know it by heart?

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