"ambient bigotry"

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@ -590,7 +590,9 @@ To add to this problem, false-negatives from these systems can be
disasterous. disasterous.
[[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/technology/youtube-lgbt-videos.html][YouTube has marked non-sexual LGBT+ videos as "sensitive"]], and [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/technology/youtube-lgbt-videos.html][YouTube has marked non-sexual LGBT+ videos as "sensitive"]], and
many machine learning systems have been found to pick up many machine learning systems have been found to pick up
[[https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing][racist assumptions]] from their surrounding environment. [[https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing][racist assumptions]] from their surrounding environment
(and other forms of "ambient bigotry" from the source society's
power dynamics as well, of course).
This isn't to say that content filtering can't be a useful complement; This isn't to say that content filtering can't be a useful complement;
if a user doesn't want to look at some content with certain words, if a user doesn't want to look at some content with certain words,