“At the Wedding: Watch the Bride Rip Into Her Jerk Groom”#AlgorithmicBias

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General Definition

Discrimination is the act of treating someone unfairly or less favorably because of their group, identity, or characteristics.
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According to the Collins Dictionary, it’s “the practice of treating one person or group of people less fairly … than other people or groups.”
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It can also mean “the ability to notice and understand the difference between things,” though in most social contexts it means unfair treatment.
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In an Algorithmic / AI Context

Algorithmic discrimination (or “automated discrimination”) happens when a computer system (or AI) produces unfair outcomes that disadvantage a person or group based on characteristics like race, gender, age, etc.
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This is a kind of “disparate impact”: the algorithm may treat different groups in systematically different ways, even if that was not explicitly programmed.

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