The devil's triangle: Ethical considerations on developing bot detection methods

Andree Thieltges, Florian Schmidt, Simon Hegelich

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Abstract

Social media is increasingly populated with bots. To protect the authenticity of the user, experience machine learning algorithms are used to detect these bots. Ethical dimensions of these methods have not been thoroughly considered yet. Taking histogram analysis of Twitter users' profile images as example, the paper demonstrates the trade-offs of accuracy, transparency, and robustness. Because there is no general optimum in ethical considerations, these dimensions form a "devil's triangle".

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 AAAI Spring Symposium Series - Collected Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposia
PublisherAI Access Foundation
Pages253-257
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781577357544
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event2016 AAAI Spring Symposium - Palo Alto, United States
Duration: 21 Mar 201623 Mar 2016

Publication series

NameAAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
VolumeSS-16-01 - 07

Conference

Conference2016 AAAI Spring Symposium
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPalo Alto
Period21/03/1623/03/16

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