@andrewg That headline was obviously written by AI. 🥸@DemocracyMattersALot
@KatM @andrewg @DemocracyMattersALot Indeed. The headline is silly in a way that the article is expressly not.
@martinvermeer @KatM @DemocracyMattersALot The headline was a direct quote from the interview.
@andrewg @KatM @DemocracyMattersALot It is not. It's a selective misquote. Here is the full text:
“An AI system is never going discriminate,” she says. “It’s just an algorithm trained on data. If the data shows bias – too much or too little representation of particular socioeconomic backgrounds... race, ethnicity, you know, any kind of bias – it’s going to perform less well, producing more errors whether it’s false positives or false negatives. That goes for every system. [...]"
@martinvermeer @andrewg @KatM @DemocracyMattersALot
The argument negates the premise. A really weird way to defend an argument.
@jgg @andrewg @KatM @DemocracyMattersALot Clumsy perhaps, but it is clear what she means. The truncated quote misrepresents it.
@martinvermeer @andrewg @KatM @DemocracyMattersALot
True. But if you are a politician and make that kind of mistake, you are bound to be misquoted or worse, misunderstanded. People has a strong tendency of hearing only the most misquotable things you say when they are not really paying attention. If you say 'Hitler was a good guy, in an alternate reality where everything is the reverse', half of people is going to keep only the first half. So politicians need to speak very carefully to avoid that.
