#biasedalgorithms

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For instance, when people began pointing out that Google was misidentifying Black people as gorillas in 2015, Google’s response was simply to no longer use “gorilla” as a descriptor at all; rather than fix their algorithm, they chose to break it more so now Google can also no longer identify gorillas.

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/article/googles-algorithms-discriminate-against-women-and-people-colour