#algorithmicbias — Public Fediverse posts

The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when stacked haphazardly in the un-airconditioned corners of Lagos living rooms or the labyrinthine, corrugated-iron warehouses of Alaba International Market. As I write this, thousands of original films from the […]

The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when stacked haphazardly in the un-airconditioned corners of Lagos living rooms or the labyrinthine, corrugated-iron warehouses of Alaba International Market. As I write this, thousands of original films from the […]

The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when stacked haphazardly in the un-airconditioned corners of Lagos living rooms or the labyrinthine, corrugated-iron warehouses of Alaba International Market. As I write this, thousands of original films from the […]

The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when stacked haphazardly in the un-airconditioned corners of Lagos living rooms or the labyrinthine, corrugated-iron warehouses of Alaba International Market. As I write this, thousands of original films from the […]

The Quietus: Rotting Tape and the Gentrification of African Pop: Why We Must Save the Nollywood Archive. “VHS magnetic tape is incredibly fragile and has a limited lifespan, especially when stacked haphazardly in the un-airconditioned corners of Lagos living rooms or the labyrinthine, corrugated-iron warehouses of Alaba International Market. As I write this, thousands of original films from the […]

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media: Social and Political Framing in Search Engine Results. “While prior research has extensively examined various dimensions of search bias—such as content prioritization, indexical bias, political polarization, and sources of bias—an important question remains underexplored: how do search engines and […]

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media: Social and Political Framing in Search Engine Results. “While prior research has extensively examined various dimensions of search bias—such as content prioritization, indexical bias, political polarization, and sources of bias—an important question remains underexplored: how do search engines and […]

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media: Social and Political Framing in Search Engine Results. “While prior research has extensively examined various dimensions of search bias—such as content prioritization, indexical bias, political polarization, and sources of bias—an important question remains underexplored: how do search engines and […]

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media: Social and Political Framing in Search Engine Results. “While prior research has extensively examined various dimensions of search bias—such as content prioritization, indexical bias, political polarization, and sources of bias—an important question remains underexplored: how do search engines and […]

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media: Social and Political Framing in Search Engine Results. “While prior research has extensively examined various dimensions of search bias—such as content prioritization, indexical bias, political polarization, and sources of bias—an important question remains underexplored: how do search engines and […]

Tubefilter: Social media has political divides, but some feeds are more polarized than others. “Researchers set up 323 ‘sock puppet’ accounts on TikTok to measure the political polarization of the For You Page, and they found some apparent disparities between right-leaning and left-leaning feeds.”

Tubefilter: Social media has political divides, but some feeds are more polarized than others. “Researchers set up 323 ‘sock puppet’ accounts on TikTok to measure the political polarization of the For You Page, and they found some apparent disparities between right-leaning and left-leaning feeds.”

Tubefilter: Social media has political divides, but some feeds are more polarized than others. “Researchers set up 323 ‘sock puppet’ accounts on TikTok to measure the political polarization of the For You Page, and they found some apparent disparities between right-leaning and left-leaning feeds.”

Tubefilter: Social media has political divides, but some feeds are more polarized than others. “Researchers set up 323 ‘sock puppet’ accounts on TikTok to measure the political polarization of the For You Page, and they found some apparent disparities between right-leaning and left-leaning feeds.”

Tubefilter: Social media has political divides, but some feeds are more polarized than others. “Researchers set up 323 ‘sock puppet’ accounts on TikTok to measure the political polarization of the For You Page, and they found some apparent disparities between right-leaning and left-leaning feeds.”

RE: https://fediscience.org/@oatp/116438875358622213

"Maximal transparency is almost certainly not ethically desirable."

Desirable 'for whom'?

For platforms facing regulatory scrutiny, opacity is a feature. For users discriminated against by biased recommendation engines, transparency is survival. For communities targeted by algorithmic manipulation, openness is a civil liberty.

This paper usefully breaks transparency into dimensions and degrees—providing the "choice points" for an ethics of algorithmic openness. But let us be clear: the stakeholders who need transparency most are rarely the ones invited to design these systems.

Our job as advocates for privacy, free software, and civil liberties is not to settle for the "ethically optimal" comfort zone of the powerful. It is to push the needle toward the maximum and let the burden of justification fall on those who demand secrecy.

Let us use it to demand more.

#DigitalJustice #AlgorithmicBias #PrivacyRights #OpenScience #AlgorithmicGovernance #DigitalDemocracy #InfoSec #TechPolicy

RE: https://fediscience.org/@oatp/116438875358622213

"Maximal transparency is almost certainly not ethically desirable."

Desirable 'for whom'?

For platforms facing regulatory scrutiny, opacity is a feature. For users discriminated against by biased recommendation engines, transparency is survival. For communities targeted by algorithmic manipulation, openness is a civil liberty.

This paper usefully breaks transparency into dimensions and degrees—providing the "choice points" for an ethics of algorithmic openness. But let us be clear: the stakeholders who need transparency most are rarely the ones invited to design these systems.

Our job as advocates for privacy, free software, and civil liberties is not to settle for the "ethically optimal" comfort zone of the powerful. It is to push the needle toward the maximum and let the burden of justification fall on those who demand secrecy.

Let us use it to demand more.

#DigitalJustice #AlgorithmicBias #PrivacyRights #OpenScience #AlgorithmicGovernance #DigitalDemocracy #InfoSec #TechPolicy

RE: https://fediscience.org/@oatp/116438875358622213

"Maximal transparency is almost certainly not ethically desirable."

Desirable 'for whom'?

For platforms facing regulatory scrutiny, opacity is a feature. For users discriminated against by biased recommendation engines, transparency is survival. For communities targeted by algorithmic manipulation, openness is a civil liberty.

This paper usefully breaks transparency into dimensions and degrees—providing the "choice points" for an ethics of algorithmic openness. But let us be clear: the stakeholders who need transparency most are rarely the ones invited to design these systems.

Our job as advocates for privacy, free software, and civil liberties is not to settle for the "ethically optimal" comfort zone of the powerful. It is to push the needle toward the maximum and let the burden of justification fall on those who demand secrecy.

Let us use it to demand more.

#DigitalJustice #AlgorithmicBias #PrivacyRights #OpenScience #AlgorithmicGovernance #DigitalDemocracy #InfoSec #TechPolicy

RE: https://fediscience.org/@oatp/116438875358622213

"Maximal transparency is almost certainly not ethically desirable."

Desirable 'for whom'?

For platforms facing regulatory scrutiny, opacity is a feature. For users discriminated against by biased recommendation engines, transparency is survival. For communities targeted by algorithmic manipulation, openness is a civil liberty.

This paper usefully breaks transparency into dimensions and degrees—providing the "choice points" for an ethics of algorithmic openness. But let us be clear: the stakeholders who need transparency most are rarely the ones invited to design these systems.

Our job as advocates for privacy, free software, and civil liberties is not to settle for the "ethically optimal" comfort zone of the powerful. It is to push the needle toward the maximum and let the burden of justification fall on those who demand secrecy.

Let us use it to demand more.

#DigitalJustice #AlgorithmicBias #PrivacyRights #OpenScience #AlgorithmicGovernance #DigitalDemocracy #InfoSec #TechPolicy

RE: https://fediscience.org/@oatp/116438875358622213

"Maximal transparency is almost certainly not ethically desirable."

Desirable 'for whom'?

For platforms facing regulatory scrutiny, opacity is a feature. For users discriminated against by biased recommendation engines, transparency is survival. For communities targeted by algorithmic manipulation, openness is a civil liberty.

This paper usefully breaks transparency into dimensions and degrees—providing the "choice points" for an ethics of algorithmic openness. But let us be clear: the stakeholders who need transparency most are rarely the ones invited to design these systems.

Our job as advocates for privacy, free software, and civil liberties is not to settle for the "ethically optimal" comfort zone of the powerful. It is to push the needle toward the maximum and let the burden of justification fall on those who demand secrecy.

Let us use it to demand more.

#DigitalJustice #AlgorithmicBias #PrivacyRights #OpenScience #AlgorithmicGovernance #DigitalDemocracy #InfoSec #TechPolicy

Due to an error in a facial recognition system created by the startup clearview ai an innocent woman in the US spent 5 months in jail.

Judges tend to place complete trust in #ai generated results, while developers avoid responsibility because there is no malicious intent in their actions

Despite the real threat of unlawful arrests, law enforcement systems around the world are unlikely to abandon algorithms

#algorithmicbias #aiethics

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition

Data collection is not the biggest problem. Interpretation is.
A version of you is constantly being assembled — cleaner, simpler, more usable than you actually are.

Measured.
Sorted.
Packaged.

That’s the moment the mirror stops reflecting and starts rewriting.

And once the model matters more than the person, complexity quietly disappears.

#DigitalIdentity #AlgorithmicPower #DataPolitics #DataProtection #AIEthics #Technology&Society #Democracy #DigitalGovernance #AlgorithmicBias

We like to think walls belong to the past.
They don’t.
They evolve.
What once looked like walls made of concrete now show up as narratives, algorithms, and silent lines we don’t question enough.
https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/invisible-walls-fear-control-division?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Democracy #DigitalDemocracy
#MediaLiteracy #Disinformation
#Systemsthinking #PoliticalEducation
#AlgorithmicBias #PublicSphere

We like to think walls belong to the past.
They don’t.
They evolve.
What once looked like walls made of concrete now show up as narratives, algorithms, and silent lines we don’t question enough.
https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/invisible-walls-fear-control-division?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Democracy #DigitalDemocracy
#MediaLiteracy #Disinformation
#Systemsthinking #PoliticalEducation
#AlgorithmicBias #PublicSphere

We like to think walls belong to the past.
They don’t.
They evolve.
What once looked like walls made of concrete now show up as narratives, algorithms, and silent lines we don’t question enough.
https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/invisible-walls-fear-control-division?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Democracy #DigitalDemocracy
#MediaLiteracy #Disinformation
#Systemsthinking #PoliticalEducation
#AlgorithmicBias #PublicSphere

We like to think walls belong to the past.
They don’t.
They evolve.
What once looked like walls made of concrete now show up as narratives, algorithms, and silent lines we don’t question enough.
https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/invisible-walls-fear-control-division?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Democracy #DigitalDemocracy
#MediaLiteracy #Disinformation
#Systemsthinking #PoliticalEducation
#AlgorithmicBias #PublicSphere

We like to think walls belong to the past.
They don’t.
They evolve.
What once looked like walls made of concrete now show up as narratives, algorithms, and silent lines we don’t question enough.
https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/invisible-walls-fear-control-division?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Democracy #DigitalDemocracy
#MediaLiteracy #Disinformation
#Systemsthinking #PoliticalEducation
#AlgorithmicBias #PublicSphere

Council of Europe unveils AI discrimination playbook for regulators: Council of Europe releases comprehensive guidelines showing equality bodies how to use EU AI Act provisions to detect and remedy algorithmic discrimination across welfare, employment, and law enforcement. https://ppc.land/council-of-europe-unveils-ai-discrimination-playbook-for-regulators/ #AIEthics #AlgorithmicBias #DigitalRights #HumanRights #AIRegulation

Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain
#AI #AIEthics #CognitiveAtrophy #CriticalThinking #DigitalWellbeing #HumanIntelligence #AIResponsibility #AlgorithmicBias #ThinkingSkills #MentalAutonomy #TechImpact #AIAwareness #Creativity
https://the-14.com/is-ai-hurting-your-ability-to-think-how-to-reclaim-your-brain/

Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain
#AI #AIEthics #CognitiveAtrophy #CriticalThinking #DigitalWellbeing #HumanIntelligence #AIResponsibility #AlgorithmicBias #ThinkingSkills #MentalAutonomy #TechImpact #AIAwareness #Creativity
https://the-14.com/is-ai-hurting-your-ability-to-think-how-to-reclaim-your-brain/

Is AI hurting your ability to think? How to reclaim your brain
#AI #AIEthics #CognitiveAtrophy #CriticalThinking #DigitalWellbeing #HumanIntelligence #AIResponsibility #AlgorithmicBias #ThinkingSkills #MentalAutonomy #TechImpact #AIAwareness #Creativity
https://the-14.com/is-ai-hurting-your-ability-to-think-how-to-reclaim-your-brain/

Mashable: Why the algorithm serves you wedding content when you just got divorced. “Across social platforms, users describe being quietly ushered through a narrow, linear life script, one that often resembles something like dating → engagement → wedding → pregnancy → parenting. These systems assume users are progressing along an expected trajectory. When lives diverge from that path, […]

Mashable: Why the algorithm serves you wedding content when you just got divorced. “Across social platforms, users describe being quietly ushered through a narrow, linear life script, one that often resembles something like dating → engagement → wedding → pregnancy → parenting. These systems assume users are progressing along an expected trajectory. When lives diverge from that path, […]

Mashable: Why the algorithm serves you wedding content when you just got divorced. “Across social platforms, users describe being quietly ushered through a narrow, linear life script, one that often resembles something like dating → engagement → wedding → pregnancy → parenting. These systems assume users are progressing along an expected trajectory. When lives diverge from that path, […]

Mashable: Why the algorithm serves you wedding content when you just got divorced. “Across social platforms, users describe being quietly ushered through a narrow, linear life script, one that often resembles something like dating → engagement → wedding → pregnancy → parenting. These systems assume users are progressing along an expected trajectory. When lives diverge from that path, […]

The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.

These algorithms build a model of me based on my clicks from three years ago and then try to trap me in that loop forever. They show me music they think I'll like, and news they think I'll engage with, and videos they think will enrage me enough to keep me hooked to their platforms. They are actively trying to flatten my personality into something easy to monetize.

As most people I've seen say out loud, "Privacy as a concept is way beyond hiding secrets. A part of it also means preserving your capacity to change. To be surprised. To be inconsistent."

If I could tell every human one thing, it would be to actively refuse to be a predictable data point. Mess up their metrics. In whatever way you are capable of.

#socialmedia #algorithmicbias #privacy #dataprivacy #quotes #foss #facebook #linkedin #llm #noai #enshittification #reading #books #baking #art #philosophy #adhd #depression #cybersecurity

A search engine alert for citations to my work highlighted this Master Thesis in Informatics from PennState University. It discusses the machine learning process building from my feature engineering textbook and then highlights racial issues within an algorithm used inside the US prisons.

I hope I'll get time to read it:

"AI, Blackness, and the Criminal Punishment System: How the STRONG-R carceral algorithm distorts Black narratives"

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/34399dqw5409

#AlgorithmicBias #AIforBad

A search engine alert for citations to my work highlighted this Master Thesis in Informatics from PennState University. It discusses the machine learning process building from my feature engineering textbook and then highlights racial issues within an algorithm used inside the US prisons.

I hope I'll get time to read it:

"AI, Blackness, and the Criminal Punishment System: How the STRONG-R carceral algorithm distorts Black narratives"

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/34399dqw5409

#AlgorithmicBias #AIforBad

A search engine alert for citations to my work highlighted this Master Thesis in Informatics from PennState University. It discusses the machine learning process building from my feature engineering textbook and then highlights racial issues within an algorithm used inside the US prisons.

I hope I'll get time to read it:

"AI, Blackness, and the Criminal Punishment System: How the STRONG-R carceral algorithm distorts Black narratives"

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/34399dqw5409

#AlgorithmicBias #AIforBad

A search engine alert for citations to my work highlighted this Master Thesis in Informatics from PennState University. It discusses the machine learning process building from my feature engineering textbook and then highlights racial issues within an algorithm used inside the US prisons.

I hope I'll get time to read it:

"AI, Blackness, and the Criminal Punishment System: How the STRONG-R carceral algorithm distorts Black narratives"

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/34399dqw5409

#AlgorithmicBias #AIforBad

A search engine alert for citations to my work highlighted this Master Thesis in Informatics from PennState University. It discusses the machine learning process building from my feature engineering textbook and then highlights racial issues within an algorithm used inside the US prisons.

I hope I'll get time to read it:

"AI, Blackness, and the Criminal Punishment System: How the STRONG-R carceral algorithm distorts Black narratives"

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/34399dqw5409

#AlgorithmicBias #AIforBad

New York just dropped a law requiring retailers to disclose if your personal data is influencing the price of staples like eggs.

Spoiler: they only have to say *if*, not *how*. Because half-transparency is still opaque, right?

How much would you pay for privacy in your grocery cart?
#DataEthics #AlgorithmicBias #TechRegulation #Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/algorithmic-pricing-eggs-ny-law/

🔎 LinkedIn Audit: Suppressing Women?
I'm running a live experiment on professional visibility. I temporarily removed the "she/her" pronoun label from my LinkedIn profile 3 days ago.

Initial Result: My average post reach immediately jumped from ~3,000 to over 6,000 impressions. That's a 100% increase overnight.

This sudden spike creates a strong hypothesis: the presence of gender labels was acting as a suppression factor, or their absence is creating an algorithmic boost for distribution.

We must audit the unseen structures (algorithms) that govern visibility. Our goal is to ensure equitable reach for all voices.

Tracking data for 10 more days. Have you seen similar shifts?

Let's discuss fairness in digital distribution.

#SystemsLeadership #AlgorithmicBias #TechInclusion

Europe, prepare for the 'AI slop'! Meta is rolling out its short-form video feed, and apparently, media generation in their AI app has already jumped tenfold. What kind of algorithmically generated content do you think awaits us? 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/meta-brings-its-short-form-video-feed-of-ai-slop-to-europe/
#AI #TechNews #Meta #AlgorithmicBias #FutureOfContent

Es gibt übrigens keinen Grund, warum das auf tiktok und insta nicht genauso sein sollte.
#algorithmicbias

https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487

X Algorithm Deliberately Boosts Right-Wing Politics in UK, Investigation Finds

#ElonMusk #X #UKPolitics #SocialMedia #AI #AlgorithmicBias #Grok #Democracy #Journalism #Investigation #Misinformation

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/11/06/x-algorithm-deliberately-boosts-right-wing-politics-in-uk-investigation-finds-xcxwbn

#X #AlgorithmicBias #TechEthics #SocialMedia

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ap35rus77cg3lzju2v43jxn/post/3m4wzrcbpm22s

Navigating the Ethical Concerns of Artificial Intelligence

https://jivoice.com/ethical-concerns-of-ai-2/

#AItransparency #machinelearningethics #futureofAIethics #AIaccountability #datasecurityinAI #AIethics #autonomoussystemsrisks #AIandprivacy #artificialintelligenceproblems #algorithmicbias

Navigating the Ethical Concerns of Artificial Intelligence

https://jivoice.com/ethical-concerns-of-ai-2/

#AItransparency #machinelearningethics #futureofAIethics #AIaccountability #datasecurityinAI #AIethics #autonomoussystemsrisks #AIandprivacy #artificialintelligenceproblems #algorithmicbias

Navigating the Ethical Concerns of Artificial Intelligence

https://jivoice.com/ethical-concerns-of-ai-2/

#AItransparency #machinelearningethics #futureofAIethics #AIaccountability #datasecurityinAI #AIethics #autonomoussystemsrisks #AIandprivacy #artificialintelligenceproblems #algorithmicbias