Algorithmic Personality Detection Essay

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WHAT IS ALGORITHMIC PERSONALITY DETECTION? HOW IS IT MORE THAN PRIVACY VIOLATING TECHNOLOGY Neha and Abhi chatting on face book Neha: Baby, do you know there is a wedding coming in the house? Abhi : Ya Baby I know. Neha: And what else do you Know? Abhi: Yahi Ki, You will be going nute on shopping Neha gets a text on her smart phone Myntra Get 50% off on all your shopping special offer - get upto 60% off on all bridal and related shopping. Neha screams out of happiness!! Surprised!! Could it be an incident or something else!! Welcome to the world of Algorithmic personality Detection. It little bit confused. It is a new personality detecting tool which helps us to characterize the personality of the individual. And seeing from the above example, you might get idea of how it works well. Neha is shopping frenzy girl in her late teens. Since, it is wedding time; she is going to go crazy spending hours shopping online. …show more content…

This makes people more vulnerable towards cyber crime. The other allegation included that the characterization done is wrong because after all it’s just program. Human nature is highly versatile and it can be analyzed by a single computer program. Hence it is not only questioning the accurateness of the tool but also the validity of the program. It also has the propensity to increase the biasness of the people and help spreading more stereotyping of the people e.g. aggressive personality people are known to commit various crimes and hence helps to spread wrong signal about aggressive people. While on the other hand people do not consider aggression wrong in Indo- Pak cricket match. Also we forget the basic thing that this tool works on digital devices. Thus requiring some computer skill, to operate. Hence, it can create the digital divide, a type of new gradation system or in case of India a new caste system.

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