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Comment by Cory Doctorow
Author and digital rights activist
So you start with a biased statistical picture of the crimes in your town (garbage in), and then you ask a computer to predict where crimes will occur in the future (garbage out).Disputed source (2026)
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Disputed. The cited Bookshop page is a product listing for Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI; its description and metadata do not contain the submitted sentence, and page searches return no match for “garbage,” “biased statistical picture,” or “predict where crimes will occur.” The page lists the book’s publish date as June 23, 2026. I found only similar but different Cory Doctorow wording elsewhere, such as “If you feed bias policing data to an ML system and say, ‘Where will the crime be?’ It will give you a biased answer” and “The iron law of computing states: ‘Garbage in, garbage out,’ but predictive policing is worse than mere GIGO,” which indicates the submitted text is likely a paraphrase/composite rather than a verbatim quote from the cited source.
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