What would happen if a law was passed that said all content determined via algorithms had to be open source? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

There is a law in the EU that is similar, you can't have systems making automated decisions about people without the decision being explained to the people you make them about.

This is part of the reason EU companies don't use crappy automated filtering in their ATS systems.

this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023

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