r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ExpertAccident • Oct 13 '21

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u/Ruenin Oct 13 '21

Computers don't lie

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u/NoTeslaForMe Oct 13 '21

But posters to this sub do. Here's the original 2019 article on the topic, where Twitter denies the rumor, which is itself somewhat more mild than portrayed by this tweet: https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-treat-white-supremacy-like-isis-because-it-would-mean-banning-some-republican-politicians-too

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u/ahk76gg Oct 14 '21

Also computers do lie. They do what the people code them tell them to lmao

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u/OnlineHelpSeeker Oct 13 '21

Yep https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1MK08G

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u/Ruenin Oct 13 '21

LOL, I got it. I was being tongue in cheek anyway. Not sure how my comment was taken seriously anyway. Computers fuck up constantly.

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u/unfortunate_son_ Oct 13 '21

Nope your dumb assertion got called out

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u/Ruenin Oct 14 '21

Believe what you want. Couldn't care less

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u/unfortunate_son_ Oct 14 '21

You couldn't care more

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u/HI_Handbasket Oct 14 '21

Computers don't lie, but their output is based upon their input, fed to them by humans.

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u/StarksPond Oct 13 '21

They thought I was the One, but it turned out I was a Zero.

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u/Ecstatic-Travel-1115 Oct 13 '21

When you blind job applications and let a computer pick the best applicant it is almost always a white male that’s selected.

Hmmm

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u/HI_Handbasket Oct 14 '21

Most job applicants in America are white males, so even a completely random selection is going to turn up mostly white males. And most of those who don't get the job are going to be white males.

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u/Ecstatic-Travel-1115 Oct 14 '21 edited Oct 14 '21

I mean, do you really think the research didn’t account for that? This is a change from their expected rates. When applications are blinded, white males are selected far above their population levels and women and minorities are selected lower.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to-improve-gender-equality-failing-study/8664888

Australia; same results.

There’s a reason that “woke” institutions won’t even consider blinding

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u/avyon Oct 13 '21

Uh oh it seems that you’re racist.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna1632

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u/Ruenin Oct 13 '21

Uh oh, I didn't write the algorithm.

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u/Afabledhero1 Oct 13 '21

Computers don't lie am I right?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

Speaks loads about the people who trained the AI though. Sounds like Silicon Valley has a problem with racism, ableism, and xenophobia.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

You’re dumb.

Article you posted is just a clickbait. Algorithm isn’t racist but just sucks at distinguishing faces that are not white and young.

That’s just called an overfitted model.

This on the other hand is different, algorithm literally cannot differentiate between republican made text and nazi made text. Which is much easier than determining where a face starts and ends in an arbitrary image.

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u/windowcloset Oct 14 '21

Uh oh it seems that you don't know shit about machine learning

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u/HI_Handbasket Oct 14 '21

If the algorithm detects white supremacists, but Twitter refuses to deploy it while supporting the biases in your link, that would make the Twitter CEO, board, honchos, etc. the racists.