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Pluralistic: The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships (26 July 2023)


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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 26, 2023July 31, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags algorithmic bias, authoritarianism, dictators dilemma, digital dictatorships, eddie yang, Fully automated data driven authoritarianism, gigo, habsburg ai, henry farrell, machine learning, ml, political science, preference falsification, scholarship, self censorship, spirals of delusion, training bias1 Comment on Pluralistic: The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships (26 July 2023)

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