Andreas Ekström: The moral bias behind your search results
Andreas Ekström: 隱藏在搜尋結果背後的道德偏差
Andreas Ekström describes the power structures of the digital revolution. Full bio
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跟那裡的學生交流
and talk to students,
of choice for you?
是你獨愛的搜索引擎?
the same three answers.
答案永遠是這三種。
that's why I Google, too.
我也是因此而使用Google的。
and my reply to that is usually,
我通常這樣回應,
『搜索引擎』
of interesting alternatives."
更有趣的選擇。」
her or his hand and say,
the best, unbiased search result."
最好、最沒有偏差的結果」
unbiased search result.
最沒有偏差的結果。
that idea of the unbiased search result
這種無偏差搜尋結果的想法
for and appreciation of Google.
和感激的基礎。
is almost an impossibility.
證明給你看這句話根本不可能成立。
just a little bit, on a basic principle
稍微闡述每個搜尋查詢背後的
that we sometimes seem to forget.
這些是我們常常忽略的。
to Google something,
"Am I looking for an isolated fact?"
「我在尋找單一的事實嗎?」
of a water molecule?
基本結構是什麼?
who are this close to proving
有那麼一點點可能證明
among those things.
to these isolated facts.
just a little bit and ask something like,
稍微複雜一點,像是
an Israeli-Palestine conflict?"
和巴勒斯坦會有衝突?」
for a singular fact anymore,
complicated and delicate.
or 100 facts to the table
甚至100個事實
"Yes, these are all true."
「是的,這些都是事實。」
gay or straight,
同性戀或異性戀,
to me than that."
to argue, to form society.
而形成一個社會。
we need to filter all our facts here,
我們首先要篩選手上的資訊,
and parents and children
and magazines,
is a poor help to achieve.
just to show you why it's so hard
objective knowledge --
客觀的知識那麼困難--
queries, search queries.
result, more or less.
not even the President.
連總統都沒有。
to achieve this, but quite simply,
達成這些目的,但簡單來說
more than anything.
under the picture on each website?
圖片的標題是什麼?
under the picture?
「Michelle Obama」?
it's actually her on there.
uploaded to the website.
檔名是否是MichelleObama.jpeg?
Clint Eastwood in the picture.
克林·伊斯威特(Clint Eastwoood)。
a search result like this -- almost.
搜尋到這樣的結果--幾乎啦。
was the victim of a racist campaign,
變成一個種族歧視運動的受害者,
through her search results.
widely over the Internet
to look like a monkey.
very, very purposefully,
"Michelle Obama" in the caption
「Michelle Obama」寫入標題裡,
as "MichelleObama.jpeg," or the like.
「MichelleObama.jpeg」,或類似的。
the search result.
為了操縱搜尋結果。
for "Michelle Obama" in 2009,
搜尋「Michelle Obama」的圖片,
showed up among the first results.
就會出現在結果的前端。
every hour, every day.
都在測量結果的相關性。
for that this time,
讓這件事順其自然,
and it's a bad search result
是不好的搜尋結果,
and clean that up manually.
some code and fix it,"
thinks that was a bad idea.
覺得這是個餿主意吧。
是慘不忍睹的一天。
a couple of government buildings
炸毀了好幾棟
right now in Oslo, Norway
to the island of Utøya
this act of terror as two steps,
the buildings and he shot those kids.
以及射殺那群孩子。
he shot those kids,
射殺那群孩子,
for the world to Google him.
天下人Google搜尋他。
all three steps equally well.
who immediately understood this,
in Stockholm, named Nikke Lindqvist.
叫尼克·林德威斯特
in social media, on his blog and Facebook.
瀏覽他的部落格和臉書。
this guy wants right now,
can protest against what he did
來抗議他的惡行。』
in his search results."
on your websites, on your blogs.
name in the caption,
的名字寫到標題中,
the picture file "Breivik.jpeg."
the face of the terrorist."
這就是那位恐怖分子的臉孔。」
against Michelle Obama,
against Anders Behring Breivik worked.
所發起的操縱運動成功了。
the July 22 events from Sweden,
你在瑞典Google圖片搜尋他的話,
high up in the search results,
狗狗在路邊大便的圖片,
didn't intervene this time.
這次竟撒手閉眼。
clean those search results up.
手動把這些搜尋結果清除掉。
between these two happenings here?
what happened to Michelle Obama
to Anders Behring Breivik?
and not in the other.
is an honorable person, that's why,
is a despicable person.
power-player in the world
we don't believe in you.
我們不相信你。
You're true, you're false.
你說真話,你說謊。
that behind every algorithm
難以動搖的信仰的人。
completely eradicate.
out not only to Google,
of code around the world.
擁有相信某種教條的人說。
自己的個人偏差。
your own personal bias.
we've reached a point in time
我們已經到了一個
together again, tighter:
that that wonderfully seductive idea
永遠是個天方夜譚。
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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