240. Anthropology of Algorithms, Ethnography of Engineers, Theory of Traps (ft. Nick Seaver)
This Machine Kills
Are There Any Canonical Criticisms of the Recommender Systems?
When you first came across these recommender systems that did start to work, you talked about some people who had canonical criticisms of the recommended systems. Could we talk a bit about, you know, concerns that they had and maybe what would, or what any research you've seen in the field work can or maybe can't be addressed at this point? Yeah. I think some of these critiques are really spot on in the idea of like, hey, if everything is run through this filter that has a kind of opaque logic in it, whatever the logic of that filter is, is going to be really influential. And then the goodness thing, I know the the working, the you know, what
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