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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads (futurism.com)
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[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 5 hours 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 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

JANEWAY DID WHAT SHE HAD TO DO

[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 hours ago 
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} else {
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