[HN Gopher] I Designed Algorithms at Facebook. Here's How to Reg...
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I Designed Algorithms at Facebook. Here's How to Regulate Them
Author : adrian_mrd
Score : 18 points
Date : 2021-10-06 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| idrios wrote:
| Their proposed solution (as I understood it) is to reform Section
| 230 to make platforms liable for illegal content that gets
| promoted/amplified -- and that doing this would make the
| algorithmic news feed too much of a legal liability.
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| I get that the desired result is that Facebook reigns in its
| algorithmic ranking, but the actual result will probably be
| lengthy debates over what constitutes illegal posts, small fines
| that Facebook can afford to pay, and algorithmic censorship with
| a disgusting number of false positives.
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| Would love to be corrected if I read that proposed change
| incorrectly.
| jchonphoenix wrote:
| Former Data Scientist... This person is just attention seeking.
|
| The only people at FB who design algorithms are ML Engineers
| under the SWE ladder. You can immediately disregard this piece.
| iammisc wrote:
| I don't care about facebook, but can we stop using the word
| 'algorithm' to describe a machine learning model? An algorithm is
| a sequence of steps with logic that you can translate into a
| programming language. An algorithm is deduced by considering
| performance requirements and an explicit problem to solve. A
| Machine learning model is a set of weights for an equation
| trained using empirical data and providing a fuzzy answer.
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