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Solutions to preference manipulation in recommender systems require knowledge of meta-preferences

Information Retrieval 2022-09-27 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Machine Learning

Abstract

Iterative machine learning algorithms used to power recommender systems often change people's preferences by trying to learn them. Further a recommender can better predict what a user will do by making its users more predictable. Some preference changes on the part of the user are self-induced and desired whether the recommender caused them or not. This paper proposes that solutions to preference manipulation in recommender systems must take into account certain meta-preferences (preferences over another preference) in order to respect the autonomy of the user and not be manipulative.

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@article{arxiv.2209.11801,
  title  = {Solutions to preference manipulation in recommender systems require knowledge of meta-preferences},
  author = {Hal Ashton and Matija Franklin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.11801},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted at the RecSys-22 5th FAccTRec Workshop on Responsible Recommendation held at the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 3 pages, 1 figure

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