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petgreg t1_iwgw5h4 wrote

Reply to comment by croninsiglos in Using AI to combat human trafficking raises ethical concerns including bias endemic in datasets, privacy risks stemming from data collection and reporting, and issues concerning potential misuse by asbruckman

You are misunderstanding the word bias here.

We are not saying "more (insert race) get trafficked, so that's what the data shows, but Liberals are all like "oh no, we can't say that"

We're talking about the prevalence of intentional and unintentional data manipulation as people collect data, such as seeing what they want to see, selecting subjects based on their approachability rather than true random, selecting subjects based on ease of collating data (maybe all in one place, or all who have access to Internet, etc.)

That is something we'd want ai to correct for. It is not representative of the population (well, not perfectly).

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croninsiglos t1_iwgwlpk wrote

I’m not misunderstanding the word bias, just to be clear. I do this for a living.

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