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  • Norgur@fedia.iotoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldI'm scared
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    4 months ago

    Y’all do know that dismissing Ms. Lewinsky’s opinion and suggesting that her feelings about something she did and judged for herself might be wrong is rather patronizing, don’t you? She is the only person in this universe who can decide that. She has done so. End of.











  • I really have a hard time deciding if that is the scandal the article makes it out to be (although there is some backpedaling going on). The crucial point is: 8% of the decisions turn out to be wrong or misjudged. The article seems to want us to think that the use of the algorithm is to blame. Yet, is it? Is there evidence that a human would have judged those cases differently? Is there evidence that the algorithm does a worse job than humans? If not, then the article devolves onto blatant fear mongering and the message turns from “algorithm is to blame for deaths” into “algorithm unable to predict the future in 100% of cases”, which of course it can’t…