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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads (futurism.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Iheartcheese@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 69 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Who the fuck comes up with this stuff?

[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The most generous assumption is that they use statistics to determine correlations like this (e.g., deleted selfies resulted in a high CTR for beauty ads so they made that a part of their algo). The least generous interpretation is exactly what you're thinking: an asshole came up with it because it's logical and effective.

Either way, ethics needs to be a bigger part of the programmers education. And we, as a society, need to make algorithms more transparent (at least social media algorithms). Reddit's trending algorithm used to be open source during the good ole days.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Can you make the algorithm open source that determined it was ok for you to murder Tuvix tho

[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 weeks ago

if (ugly) {
    kill_child(child_name);
} else {
    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
}

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

JANEWAY DID WHAT SHE HAD TO DO

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Are you sure that you don't already know it by heart?

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