Bystander
Someone who sees something harmful happen and chooses to act, or not to.
Learn it through a story
- Mitthu Repeats Everything (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 6)
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Related terms
- Balanced data Examples that fairly cover every group.
- Bias When an AI is regularly wrong or unfair for one group.
- Block and report Stopping contact from someone and telling the platform about harmful behaviour.
- Cyberbullying Using a screen, post, or message to mock, embarrass, or target a real person.
- Dataset The whole collection of examples an AI learns from.
- Digital empathy Thinking about the real person behind every post before you share it.