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December 19, 2023 at 12:52 pm #1854070

blinky465

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I’ve worked with some of the guys who worked on “the algorithm”.
Trust me – they didn’t know “exactly what they were doing”.
Quite the opposite, in fact.

In the same way, nobody every coded an AI chatbot to be a racist misogynist, but it just kind of evolved because of an unfiltered feedback loop, much of “the algorithm” is simply returning what it found works – if there was any way these corporations could make more money, irrespective of whether that nudged users down a particular path of belief/opinion, they’d happily take it. Algorithms work they way they do because of user feedback and generating profit, not some sinister all-seeing overlord imposing a singular world view on the entire population.

But maybe – if you’ve clicked on it enough to teach the algorithm that you like conspiracy theories – InfoWars will tell you otherwise?