Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team

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As part of a wave of layoffs, the new CEO disbanded a group working to make Twitter’s algorithms more transparent and fair.

on Twitter, showing how right-leaning news sources were, in fact, promoted more than left-leaning ones.

, an associate professor at the University of Washington who studies online disinformation, wrote on Twitter.“The META team was one of the only good case studies of a tech company running an AI ethics group that interacts with the public and academia with substantial credibility,” saysAlkhatib says Chowdhury is incredibly well thought of within the AI ethics community and her team did genuinely valuable work holding Big Tech to account.

 

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There’s nothing ethical about Capitalism - ever

Want to make the algo transparent and fair? Then don't have an algo, show tweets from people you follow in time order. Like twitter used to.

Twitter needs an AI to make it's algorithms more transparent? Like buying a jackhammer to pound nails... Defeats the purpose

Good !!! glad he did get rid of the program

Well they obviously weren't doing a good job. It's like asking a homeless drug addict to come up with a workout schedule... I think you have bigger problems to deal with bud.

Twitter fucking rocks now ☺️😊😌

Good. Slowly rotate 100% of past Twitter employees out the door, while you relocate it to Florida or Texas and restaff with individuals who actually know what individual freedom means Give the left wing creeps the slightest opportunity and censorship will rise again

You don't need AI to make the algorithms transparent and fair - now that we aren't catering to shareholders all that's needed is to revert the 'algorithm' to listing Tweets by age, instead of the current gamification.

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My theory is that Elon Musk and Twitter work for the deep state now, pretending not, and replacing everyone not trusted. Yet we all keep playing.

They were at post when those secret dirty dealings were taking place? Pffft

The negativity around everything Elon does is so blatant. It has crept from national/world news programs down to tech. The One Absolute Opinion cult is real.

Yeah, they were 'working toward it', but they were hampered their political ideology, and subservience to authority.

Still no story about the twitter file contents? Not interested in this story so not clicking on the link. Sorry

JonHutson He should just fire everyone. Goof 🤡

Peddling hourly Chicken Little 'TWTR Sky Is Falling' while leading the charge of Twitter Files ostriches!

Good. I hope he bans your clearly anti free speech communist rag too.

Lol what BS twitter under the old guard was not in the business of transparent and fair, it was 95% bias to one side ..

What I say to one comment Better leave me because he got brain I know how to tell him without money to see now what’s next

Hate Wired.

Were they?

Anything with ‘Ethics’ in the title isn’t going to show a profit, so axe it! 🙄

Think about it a little though. You essentially have to 'throttle' any group of people that is more active than another group in order to make the volume of tweets with different people more even. I.e. block random tweets of any given subject/position that is currently popular

lol. apparently they weren't very ethical at all.

I don’t believe that working for Twitter is a secure job

Booooo! Twitter is a garbage dump of misinformation and straight fabrication. Until citizens can have validated sources of information society will continue to fracture and devolve into silos of false beliefs.

What did this so-called 'Ethical AI' team do before ElonMusk bought Twitter? NOTHING! Yet another ElonMuskFudster. elonmusk

I don't trust Twitter's old management team to do anything ethical so getting rid of that department and my eyes was a good thing

Another self proclaimed genius move no doubt

Still waiting on the wired article about FBI and executive branch collusion (Trump and Biden) with tech? Remember when you guys did real tech reporting? Those were the good days.

And for his next trick?

Twitter needs to remove all algorithms to really be transparent and fair....this apply to all social media

We had a what? They weren’t very good to begin with lol.

From what we now know, that team was strongly driven by a political ideology, and likely pressed by lawmakers or a party.

Where were you guys when twitter worked with the gov to supress free speech?

What’s new in business world new broom always sweeps clean replacing the old with the new happens every day.

It’s quite possible they were not pushing an ethical transparent algorithm , and that’s why

Good Riddance.

Laughing at all the liberals crying over Twitter!!!

This isnt news its a hit.

Reality check The algorithms were never EVER transparent nor fair and this 'team' never had any intention of making them so.

boltgrrl I think we all know he has zero interest in ethics.

He is cleaning up the rubbish. Twitter AI never works right and the engineers must be fired.

So twitter is worse off now? 🫣🫠🫢. Sh!tty algorithms

Unless, they weren't

But it was never transparent and fair. 😂🤡 This is a good thing.

The AI team wasn't doing a very good job to be fair

Guess who I am? First name starts with Elon…

Good.

Soon only Optimis Prime will run Twitter. Their HQ is used to house bots

How long before he replaces his workforce with robots.

A man not known for his operational prowess

Clean it up, Elon!!!! elonmusk

Elon just doing his part to help FED meet employment goals 🙌

So they admit the algorithms were not fair? That's why they were working on them to make them fair?

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