“we are particularly constrained in what we are able to know when our social situation is dominant, and therefore seldom questioned. The “view from nowhere” supposed to characterize objectivity, in Haraway’s words, actually “signifies the unmarked positions of Man and White”

* “only 13% of all active Wikimedia editors are women and 4% gender-diverse, according to a 2023 report”

“We found that knowledge-enhanced language modeling on the basis of Wikidata preserves the biases of the original language model…we argue that trusting “knowledge data” more than other types of data may wrongfully disguise these issues and contributes to perpetuate the specific kind of injustice that Miranda Fricker has dubbed epistemic injustice, that is, a kind of injustice that harms us specifically as knowers.”

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3630106.3658981

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