to be fair, it's worth lambasting them over it because they are perpetuating the myth that AI is bias free (which a lot of people actually do believe!) and putting the weight of mozilla's reputation behind it
to be fair, it's worth lambasting them over it because they are perpetuating the myth that AI is bias free (which a lot of people actually do believe!) and putting the weight of mozilla's reputation behind it
Remember when ProPublica claimed that recidivism prediction models were biased against black people? (https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...)
They rigged their analysis. There are two different fairness metrics - individual and group-based - that cannot possibly be fulfilled at the same time if there is any difference between the groups. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807v2)
The model was fair all along according to individual metrics. ProPublica picked their fairness metric so as to make the model appear biased. The whole thing was a lie.
The same is true regarding humans though, so "use a magic ai to avoid bias from humans" still doesn't make any sense.