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+metadata.title = "Algorithmic Bias"
+metadata.category = "misc"
+metadata.date = "2020-06-05 09:55:42 -0400"
+metadata.shortDesc = ""
+```
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+I am subscribed to Marques Brownlee on YouTube. I watch almost every one of his videos. YouTube is smart. It knows this, it recommends me almost all of his videos. But not this one. No matter how many times I refresh the page. No matter how far down the page I scroll. Despite the fact that the video has gotten 2.3 million views in 16 hours, performing better than a number of his recent videos. Despite the fact that it's recommending me videos that are from people I am not subscribed to, videos that are years old, videos that I have watched before, videos that are about politics, videos that are about the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder.
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+This is what algorithmic bias looks like. **Algorithms are not neutral.**[^1]
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+<figure>
+	<img src="<%= metadata.permalink %>/youtube_thumb.png" alt="YouTube thumbnail of an MKBHD video">
+	<figcaption>A screenshot of the thumbnail for a YouTube video from MKBHD titled "Reflecting on the Color of My Skin".</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+[^1]: "Algorithm" is a word here used not in the purely computer science sense, but to mean a element of software which operates in a black box, often with a machine learning component, with little or no human supervision, input, or control.