Facebook’s Alex Stamos Talked Bots, Machine Learning, Algorithms in Saturday Tweet Storm
Stamos urged journalists 'to try to talk to people who have actually had to solve these problems'
Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos offered his two cents on the controversy over the 2016 U.S. presidential elections in a tweet storm from his personal Twitter account.
Responding to a tweet from Lawfare associate editor Quinta Jurecic, which read, “Algorithms are not neutral, they are designed. Could you design an algorithm to review these ads more quickly than humans? Maybe!,” Stamos composed several tweets Saturday.
Stamos pointed out the challenges and potential pitfalls of “training ML systems to classify something as fake based upon ideologically biased training data,” as well as “academics who have made wild claims of how easy it is to spot fake news and propaganda.”
He also urged journalists “to try to talk to people who have actually had to solve these problems and live with the consequences.”
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