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this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
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It stems from a somewhat reactionary (in a "I don't want chemicals in my food" way) prospective where they knew the outcome of algorithms was bad but didn't understand why it was bad. Now they have their own algorithm and it's repeating a lot of the same mistakes.
The chemicals analogy is actually pretty genius!
We've all seen a "I don't want chemicals in my food" reactionary. They're not racist or anything just fueled more by anger than by principal.