arXiv AI By Michael Correll, Lucy Havens, Mahsan Nourani

"Trust Junk" Leads to Unjustified Support for Highly Discriminatory Predictive Models

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arXiv:2607. 14152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The persuasive power of data visualizations can go awry: for instance, in an explainable AI (XAI) context, visualizations can produce over-trust of predictive models.

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