Participation is not a Design Fix for Machine Learning

07/05/2020

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by   Mona Sloane, et al.

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This paper critically examines existing modes of participation in design practice and machine learning. Cautioning against 'participation-washing', it suggests that the ML community must become attuned to possibly exploitative and extractive forms of community involvement and shift away from the prerogatives of context-independent scalability.