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:: Or perhaps an article about the [[Social impact of algorithms]], with a heavy emphasis on social media algorithms? Because there are articles about algorithms being used to [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56515827 hire and fire people], for [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53806038 insurance and policing], and [https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/18/21121286/algorithms-bias-discrimination-facial-recognition-transparency several other places they can introduce bias], and those should probably also be addressed in the for-a-lay-audience article. --[[Special:Contributions/Hirsutism|Hirsutism]] ([[User talk:Hirsutism|talk]]) 20:18, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
::''"In the social-media context, "algorithm" usually just means that some kind of processing has been done; it doesn't mean that the processing was in accordance with any kind of clear procedure, which is what an algorithm is supposed to be. I don't want this page to be about any old data-processing. That's not an algorithm. That's just what journos refer to as "algorithm". If we let that go, then we'll need a new term to refer to real algorithms: e.g. "Explicit procedure for performing transformations on data", which is a bit unwieldy."''
::Thank you! I've been trying to understand what news/social media means by algorithms. But none of the actual definitions help. Now I see that that is because the popular use of algorithm is similar to the popular use of 'metaphysics.' It means something different and sillier.
::We Social impact of algorithms: I see that there is already a wiki dealing with [[Algorithmic Bias]] that probably accounts for this. [[User:Jesseraekern|Jesseraekern]] ([[User talk:Jesseraekern|talk]]) 18:14, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
: I've written a bit of an article at [[User:Hirsutism/Algorithm (social media)]]. Could someone take a look at it, and tell me if they think the article should be expanded to cover all AI-with-a-social-impact, or should it focus only on social media algorithms? On the other side, there's quite a few articles about this already, I don't know whether we even ''need'' a new separate article, other than a short summary in this article? --[[Special:Contributions/Hirsutism|Hirsutism]] ([[User talk:Hirsutism|talk]]) 20:41, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
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