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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

She dutifully gave the talk on the project as is, complete with the rug pull at the end: “Here’s our results! They’re so broken! Look, it learned the bias in our dataset! Surprise!“ It got an audible reaction from the audience. People •loved• her talk.

I wish there had been some HR folks at her talk.

Train an AI on your discriminatory hiring practices, and guess what it learns? That should be a rhetorical question, but I’ll spell it out: it learns how to infer the gender of applicants.

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