Description: Collaborative filtering prone to popularity bias, resulting in overrepresentation of popular items in the recommendation outputs.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Facebook , LinkedIn , YouTube , Twitter and Netflix developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Facebook users , LinkedIn users , YouTube users , Twitter Users and Netflix users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
168
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2022-03-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
arxiv.org · 2022
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Introduction
Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most traditional but also most powerful concepts for calculating personalized recommendations [22] and is vastly used in the field of multimedia recommender systems (MMRS) [11]. Howeve…
unite.ai · 2022
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If you’re interested in obscure things, there are two reasons why your searches for items and products are likely to be less related to your interests than those of your ‘mainstream’ peers; either you’re a monetization ‘edge case’ whose int…
Variants
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