Andreas Ekström: The moral bias behind your search results
Andrēass Ēkstroms: Morālie meklēšanas rezultātu neobjektivitātes cēloņi
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and talk to students,
un runājot ar skolēniem,
of choice for you?
Google meklētājprogrammai?
the same three answers.
tās pašas trīs atbildes.
that's why I Google, too.
tāpēc arī es izmantoju Google.
and my reply to that is usually,
un es uz to parasti atbildu:
„meklētājprogramma”,
interesantas alternatīvas.”
of interesting alternatives."
her or his hand and say,
the best, unbiased search result."
iegūšu vislabāko, objektīvāko rezultātu.”
unbiased search result.
objektīvāko meklēšanas rezultātu.
zinātņu cilvēkam,
that idea of the unbiased search result
par objektīviem meklēšanas rezultātiem
for and appreciation of Google.
un pozitīvajam Google novērtējumam.
is almost an impossibility.
raugoties, ir gandrīz neiespējami.
just a little bit, on a basic principle
paskaidrošu pamatprincipu
that we sometimes seem to forget.
ko mēs reizēm aizmirstam.
to Google something,
kaut ko atrast Google,
„Vai es meklēju faktu?”
"Am I looking for an isolated fact?"
of a water molecule?
who are this close to proving
kas gatavotos pierādīt,
among those things.
uz šiem atsevišķajiem faktiem.
to these isolated facts.
just a little bit and ask something like,
sarežģītāku jautājumu, piemēram,
an Israeli-Palestine conflict?"
un Palestīnas konfliktu,
for a singular fact anymore,
complicated and delicate.
or 100 facts to the table
"Yes, these are all true."
ka, jā, tie visi ir patiesi.
baltādains vai melnādains,
gay or straight,
es tos vērtēšu atšķirīgi.
bet šis fakts man ir svarīgāks nekā tas.”
to me than that."
to argue, to form society.
we need to filter all our facts here,
mums jāfiltrē visi mūsu fakti
and parents and children
vecākiem un bērniem,
and magazines,
is a poor help to achieve.
pilnvērtīgi nodrošināt.
just to show you why it's so hard
lai jūs redzētu, kāpēc ir tik grūti
objective knowledge --
queries, search queries.
meklēšanas vaicājumus.
ASV pirmo lēdiju.
result, more or less.
meklēšanas rezultāts.
not even the President.
tajos nav redzams pat prezidents.
lai to panāktu, bet, vienkāršāk sakot,
to achieve this, but quite simply,
galvenokārt diviem faktoriem.
more than anything.
under the picture on each website?
katrā tīmekļa vietnē?
under the picture?
it's actually her on there.
ka attēlā redzama viņa.
uploaded to the website.
faila nosaukumu.
Clint Eastwood in the picture.
ka attēlā nav Klints Īstvuds.
a search result like this -- almost.
iegūstat šādu meklēšanas rezultātu.
was the victim of a racist campaign,
rasistu kampaņas upure –
through her search results.
caur viņas meklēšanas rezultātiem.
widely over the Internet
lai atgādinātu pērtiķi.
to look like a monkey.
very, very purposefully,
lai tas parādītos meklēšanas rezultātos.
"Michelle Obama" in the caption
as "MichelleObama.jpeg," or the like.
„MichelleObama.jpeg” vai kas tamlīdzīgs,
the search result.
for "Michelle Obama" in 2009,
attēlu „Mišela Obama”,
showed up among the first results.
izkropļotais pērtiķa attēls.
ik stundu, ik dienu.
every hour, every day.
for that this time,
and it's a bad search result
šis ir neatbilstošs rezultāts,
and clean that up manually.
un veiksim manuālu tīrīšanu.
some code and fix it,"
un savedīsim šo kārtībā.”
thinks that was a bad idea.
ka tā bija slikta ideja.
Norvēģijas vēsturē.
a couple of government buildings
divas valdības ēkas,
right now in Oslo, Norway
Oslo, Norvēģijā.
to the island of Utøya
this act of terror as two steps,
ka šim teroraktam bija divi soļi –
the buildings and he shot those kids.
he shot those kids,
for the world to Google him.
meklēt viņu Google.
all three steps equally well.
visus trīs soļus.
who immediately understood this,
in Stockholm, named Nikke Lindqvist.
speciālists Stokholmā, Nike Lindkvists.
in social media, on his blog and Facebook.
savā emuārā un Facebook.
this guy wants right now,
can protest against what he did
varam protestēt pret viņa nodarīto,
in his search results."
ar suņa kaku uz ietves, –
on your websites, on your blogs.
tīmekļa vietnēs, emuāros.
name in the caption,
the picture file "Breivik.jpeg."
the face of the terrorist."
ka tā ir terorista patiesā seja.”
against Michelle Obama,
against Anders Behring Breivik worked.
pret Annešu Bēringu-Breivīku nostrādāja.
the July 22 events from Sweden,
pēc 22. jūlija notikumiem,
high up in the search results,
parādījās suņa kaku attēls –
didn't intervene this time.
clean those search results up.
manuālu šo rezultātu dzēšanu.
between these two happenings here?
kaut kādā ziņā atšķiras?
what happened to Michelle Obama
starp gadījumu ar Mišelu Obamu
to Anders Behring Breivik?
and not in the other.
Google iesaistījās, bet otrā – ne.
is an honorable person, that's why,
is a despicable person.
riebumu izraisošs cilvēks.
power-player in the world
we don't believe in you.
Tu esi patiess, tu – ne.
You're true, you're false.
that behind every algorithm
completely eradicate.
out not only to Google,
of code around the world.
kas uzticas kodam.
your own personal bias.
objektivitātes trūkums.
we've reached a point in time
ka ir pienācis brīdis,
un jāpadara vēl ciešāka saikne
together again, tighter:
un tehnoloģiju.
that that wonderfully seductive idea
ka brīnišķīgi vilinošā ideja
meklēšanas rezultātiem
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andreas Ekström - Author and journalistAndreas Ekström describes the power structures of the digital revolution.
Why you should listen
Andreas Ekström is staff writer at Sydsvenskan, a daily morning paper in Malmö, Sweden.
His passion is educating for digital equality, and he has a vision for a world in which we share the wealth -- not only financially, but also in terms of knowledge and power. Andreas is the author of six books, a columnist and a commentator, and he often lectures and leads seminars on the digital revolution.
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