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LeetHacks | 3 years ago

Yes, the AI was wrong and output was blindly accepted. There's no evidence migration background was a good predictor of fraud. The government was warned multiple times what they were doing was both illigal and ineffective. And even if it was a predictor, 26000 people were wrongly labeled as fraudsters, causing personal bankruptcy (which is very bad in the Netherlands), evictions, divorces, children wrongfully being taken away from the families (1100!) and suicides.

All while systematically denying the issue, government officials that knowingly lied during public hearings and a complete inability to compensate those that were affected.

Don't drag "wokeness" into this discussion, it has nothing to do with it.

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concordDance|3 years ago

> There's no evidence migration background was a good predictor of fraud

This would be a surprising statement to be true (theres technically evidence for Jesus being the son of god, its just the priors/hypothesis complexity are low/high. And the fact theres more evidence against the hypothesis). If you asked the makers of the law/algorithm what do you think they'd say?

ExoticPearTree|3 years ago

Wow. So the Dutch government considered people guilty by default for the simple reason of not being Dutch. What happened to the innocent until proven guilty way of handling matters?