On #fuckthealgorithm, @g8enjamin: "resisting the algorithm is really resisting the *use* of algorithms" #FAccT22
On the use of #fuckthealgorithm, folks using it "viewed the algorithm as this local of complex sociotechnical issues, not trying to compress it into a technical object" #FAccT22

spectacular tracing of algorithmic resistance with this hashtag by @g8enjamin
Really cool paper right now on Tech Worker Organizing that made use of a "Collective Action in Tech" archive, built by tech workers, union organizers, and sociologists! To do a landscape analysis of different tech worker actions -- very groovy. @FAccT22
The point to Jane McAlevey's "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power" to look at various methods of organizing to see what makes an action successful, citing an example with workers protesting the creation of a Muslim registry, which worked. #FAccT22
This Tech Worker Organizing paper is from Boag, Suresh, Lepe, and D'Ignazio. Motivation for the paper is that lots of literature focuses on the actual audits, datasheets, or model cards, but less attention on what has worked to get companies to incorporate them. #FAccT22
Limitations / where they see the work going from here: the archive of collective action overrepresents white collar tech work (vs warehouse workers, for example), is from the outside in, and doesn't describe long-term outcomes of actions. #FAccT22 Some great work though!

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Jun 23
"When one sees a racist tweet receive hundreds of thousands of interactions, is the platform the antagonist?" - @DocDre #FAccT22
"Any technical endeavor should properly begin by reflecting upon sociological and cultural understandings of that technology’s use and consequences" - @DocDre #FAccT22
"Online racial microaggressions have been elevated from individual experiences to widely broadcast, reverberating moments simultaneously experienced by many Black folks" - @DocDre #FAccT22 Image
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Jun 23
Something that (initially) quietly happened this week that might need more attention: OpenAI's DALL-E (AI for image generation), which originally had a "no realistic faces allowed" policy has been changed to allow for the generation & sharing of faces.

Here's their official email about the policy change, and why they put the policy change in place (citing new "safety measures"). I don't know if this is enough, tbh.

You can see some of the results of the new face generation by DALL-E in this thread. The faces are extremely realistic, and while some might find it really cool, I'm *really* worried about the harms that this can lead to.

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Jun 23
Really excellent talk right now on "Automating Care: Online Food Delivery Work During the CoVID-19 Crisis in India" by Anubha Singh and Tina Park that looks at structural inequalities and power asymmetries in the notions of "care" that delivery apps employed during COVID #FAccT22 Image
Gotta read this paper and revisit this talk when I have more time, because this critical analysis applied to the measures adopted by delivery platforms in India is just *chef's kiss*
"Much of the responsibility of safety fell on the shoulders of the food delivery worker", while customers were not required to follow such safety protocols. Workers would be penalized for violating measures, but customers were not, revealing an asymmetry of care. #FAccT22 Image
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Jun 22
Really powerful video at #FAccT22 right now about gig workers who had to deal with pay change algorithms at the start of pandemic & how a community-led audit helped them bargain this "black box".

They'll be releasing a public version of the video soon (keep your eyes peeled)!
This work was led by folks at Coworker.org with gig workers at Shipt.

From the panel, it seems that they went to Shipt with a systematic review of the data around how their algorithms reduced workers' pay, but Shipt has denied this & things have not changed. #FAccT22
Some emotional words from Willy Solis, a Shipt Shopper who began organizing his fellow gig workers at Shipt when they implemented the pay cut. From this, he became a lead organizer for Shipt workers nationally with @GigWC. Do check out and support their work! #FAccT22
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Jun 22
My high school (after I graduated) published a 'kill list' with names of Black students on it. NY Mag would probably write a spin article about how we should suspend our judgements about the model minority Asian kids who made that list.
Yes, this really happened, and there was NOT enough backlash. It was made by certain students at the school, and in the years that followed, other students organized a racial justice coalition at the school to address it. But not sure what ended up happening.
This shit was so vile. Here's the article about it that eventually got buried because the school protects its reputation so much:

mercurynews.com/2017/06/13/kil…
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Jun 22
Very cool paper from Terrence Neumann, Maria De-Arteaga, and Sina Fazelpour thinking about justice in misinformation detection systems that asks what "informational justice" looks like, esp. for different stakeholders who interact with information claims. #FAccT22
Huge example here. NYTimes conducted a data labelling experiment, where Native American students labelled this image of Residential Schools with tags such as genocide and cultural elimination. A leading algorithm labelled it "crowd, audience, and smile". Holy crap, #FAccT22
(ignore that this tweet got sent out like 10 hours late; Twitter for some reason refused to send it at first 😬)
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