Google’s algorithmic failures can dreadful consequences, from directing racist search terms to the White House in Google Maps to labeling Black people as gorillas in Google Photos. This week, the Silicon Valley giant added another algorithmic screw-up to the list: misidentifying a software engineer as a serial killer. The victim of this latest botch was Hristo Georgiev, an engineer based in Switzerland. Georgiev discovered that a Google search of his name returned a photo of him linked to a Wikipedia entry on a notorious murderer. Seems like Google falsely associated a photo of mine with a Wikipedia article of a…
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