namely he doesn't say that general bias in the field is not a problem he doesn't say that this doesn't harm anyone none of that he simply suggests a solution Jonathan Peck says well yes that's the point ml researchers need to be more careful selecting their data so that they don't encode biases like this and Lacan responds with not so much ml researchers but ml engineers the consequences of bias are considerably more dire in a deployed product than in an academic paper which is also correct this paper was about the method showing