When a machine moderates content, it evaluates text and images as data using an algorithm that has been trained on existing data sets. The process for selecting training data has come under fire as it’s been shown to have racial, gender and other biases.
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Similarly, applications processes, school to employment.
ENTRY LEVEL POSITION [Insert job title]
Requirements:
- 10+ Years in a similar environment
- 2+ Years of management experience
or
You apply and literally never get any form of anything back besides a confirmation email “thanks”. That was the absolute most annoying, demoralizing shit when I was searching for a job post school. I tumbled around 2 contract positions and finally have landed somewhere that I love, but fuck me was it hard on me mentally to keep farming out applications for basically a year, and hear back (I dont care if its a no, i just want some form of an answer!) less than 2% of the time
Yes, like that except… You got confirmation emails? I believe that’s the exception, I’m my area.
Why let a company be in a position to ruin ur life in the first place? It’s like putting ur balls in a Crocs mouth.
Well, it’s kinda what society forces us to do. There’s not exactly much of an alternative to interacting with companies for most things.
Whether it’s you livelihood, you home, your car, insurance, whatever
Don’t kink shame!
Having largely undisclosed and privately owned platforms and algorithms dictate and decide our cultural exchange, spread of news, topics of discourse and other societally important interactions is such a horrible idea. I wish this was more obvious to the public so governments would end this. It divides sociaties, poisons public discourse and skews it with racist biases and towards hatred.
This just reminded me that I need to delete my instagram account.
EDIT: all done.
An important point, buried deeply in the article :
She said she has observed differential treatment across the social media platform, depending on the race of the subject in the image in question or who posted it.
“We’ve seen this time and again, Meta taking down content by and about people of color,” she said. “While similar content by and about white people remains up.”
Diversify.
The Instagram account is back now. I’m still banning Meta though.
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Only it leaves pictures of the Hell’s Angels alone. Clearly there’s an issue here.
That’s not just Hell’s Angels. It’s also Pagans and Outlaws.
More than one person got killed at that party.