This was a decision Facebook made early on as part of its “move fast and break things” culture. It developed an internal tool known as FBLearner Flow that made it easy for engineers without machine learning experience to develop whatever models they needed at their disposal. (emphasis added)
I can't tell if FB is incompetent enough to let people drive a Ferrari without having any experience with a manual transmission, or if this is by design.
Ping
Almost sounds like her complaint is that the algorithms encourage the marketplace of ideas.
And that is somehow bad?
The “whistle blower” is a fascist activist.
The algorithms aren’t that hard for engineers to learn. Any tool would be for management’s convenience.
The real purpose of the “whistleblower” is to be a stalking horse for government regulation of social media. That is the only reason this suddenly simultaneously promoted by all the usual suspects in the MSM.
Is there another part of the article that actually explains what it is about? It reads like one of those informercials that tells you twenty times that it’s about to tell you something awesome, but never actually does.
“Whistleblower”. LOL
Fakebook runs a few months of commercials saying that the internet and tech industry laws need updating. And now, here comes a “whistleblower” who is feted as she explains to Congress that Facebook and big tech needs to be regulated because they do not censor speech well enough.
Whistleblower... yeah, right.
If I understand this she is saying that the AI adapts to the user such as to feed confirmation bias. I am not sure how that can be eliminated as all news organizations do the same thing by selectively reporting news in a way that pleases their base. It is just a machine doing what humans do already.
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