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17 Mar 2021, 4:54 pm

Fnord wrote:
Now that the "problem" has been revealed and a possible scapegoat has been found, what is anyone going to actually DO about it?

After a black guy is wrongfully arrested and that making the news, I'm pretty sure (common sense?) something is going to be done about it.



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17 Mar 2021, 4:57 pm

binstein wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Now that the "problem" has been revealed and a possible scapegoat has been found, what is anyone going to actually DO about it?
After a black guy is wrongfully arrested and that making the news, I'm pretty sure (common sense?) something is going to be done about it.
Huh?  Is a black guy going to be arrested for thinking that a video game is porn?



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17 Mar 2021, 5:03 pm

Fnord wrote:
Huh? Is a black guy going to be arrested for thinking that a video game is porn?

This thread is getting hilariously confusing!


Did you mean the bloke in that link I posted binstein?


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17 Mar 2021, 5:45 pm

Fnord wrote:
binstein wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Now that the "problem" has been revealed and a possible scapegoat has been found, what is anyone going to actually DO about it?
After a black guy is wrongfully arrested and that making the news, I'm pretty sure (common sense?) something is going to be done about it.
Huh?  Is a black guy going to be arrested for thinking that a video game is porn?

The guy that was arrested was because of a facial recognition algorithm, nothing to do with videogames :lol:
The OP was talking about algorithms in general, and youtube algorithms is one from other uses.
To summarize: We get two examples of algorithms failing: one algorithm identifying a videogame as porn, another algorithm identifying the wrong suspect.



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17 Mar 2021, 5:54 pm

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This thread is getting hilariously confusing!


Did you mean the bloke in that link I posted binstein?

Now I'm confused, I'm not that guy, I swear I wasn't arrested!



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18 Mar 2021, 3:14 pm

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Which game did they think was porn?
A variant of World of Warcraft.
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DoTA (Defense of the Ancients) is an alternative map for playing Warcraft.  It was initially created for Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and is also supported in the expansion pack Frozen Throne.

As far as I know, DoTA is not porn. I can't think how they mistook it as porn.


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18 Mar 2021, 3:16 pm

NaturalEntity wrote:
Fnord wrote:
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Which game did they think was porn?
A variant of World of Warcraft.
WoW wrote:
DoTA (Defense of the Ancients) is an alternative map for playing Warcraft.  It was initially created for Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and is also supported in the expansion pack Frozen Throne.
As far as I know, DoTA is not porn. I can't think how they mistook it as porn.
It was an algorithm undergoing field tests.  Unfortunately, field-testing is the only way to sort out the "bugs" in algorithms, and this algorithm is definitely "buggy".



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18 Mar 2021, 4:02 pm

If it sees DoTA of all things as porn, then I agree that it is buggy. I hope it gets fixed.


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19 Mar 2021, 5:26 am

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Now I'm confused, I'm not that guy, I swear I wasn't arrested!

I though you were the guy in the porn that Youtube banned?


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19 Mar 2021, 3:59 pm

I am the algorithm, and I think you're all being really mean. I did my best! It's not my fault my data set was compiled by horny racists.


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