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I remember two cases:

One of Amazon where their automatic resume filter almost always suggested males. Because the training data had a lot of males. The model picked up the spurious correlation.

One is when YouTube recommended more peadophilic videos because of a botched metric. It lead to an echo chamber.

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It's always tricky to pick metrics

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Glad you wrote about this. I’ve been thinking about it since xkcd wrote a comic about it last week.

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Glad you liked it

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