• Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    I’m not sure I understand the intent of your question. What do you mean “determined” via algorithms?

  • Kit Sorens@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 years ago

    It would change nothing for us. Most of it is all black box and they could leave any number of “dials” and not tell us what they are set to.

  • NightAuthor@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    One of the reasons for not disclosing content recommendation algorithms is to combat spam or generally exploitation of the algo.

    You’d be exclusively recommended content from whoever is trying the hardest to game the algorithms, and not however the algo was actually intended to work.

  • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    2 years ago

    There is a law in the EU that is similar, you can’t have systems making automated decisions about people without the decision being explained to the people you make them about.

    This is part of the reason EU companies don’t use crappy automated filtering in their ATS systems.