Study: When do annotator demographics matter? Measuring the influence of annotator demographics with the POPQUORN dataset Social media companies are increasingly using complex algorithms and artificial intelligence to detect offensive behavior online. These algorithms and AI systems all rely on data to learn what is offensive. But who's behind the data, and how do their backgrounds influence their decisions? In a new study, University of Michigan School of Information assistant professor David Jurgens and doctoral candidate Jiaxin Pei found that the backgrounds of data annotators-the people labeling texts, videos and online media-matter a lot.

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