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		tshaddox on July 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchange... If the human baseline is bad, that doesn't imply that it's better to use computers to do the same task much faster while obfuscating accountability.

darawk on July 2, 2020 [–]

You have it exactly backwards though. Its humans that obstruct accountability, because they are opaque and inconsistent. ML is consistent and inspectable. It cannot lie to you about its motivations. It is infinitely more accountable than any human system ever will be.

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