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by Animats 3359 days ago
If 3 of the 4 top "good news" stories mention Trump, as seen in the ad, there may be a problem.
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I was going to post here that it may be "good news" if you voted for him, but this brings up an interesting point: I know people that even voted for him that no longer would consider that kind of thing "good news". Makes you wonder how long it would take for the app to figure out that you no longer consider something "good news". Sort of like how I had a friend stay with me for about a month, and he used by Netflix profile, and rated a bunch of stuff (which perhaps is the rudest thing a houseguest could do, I think). I'm still recovering proper recommendations.
Well, he won the election. So news about Trump is probably seen as "good" by a lot of people.
Yes, not very good screenshot for the landing page. But all of the predictions were made by AI :-)
I think that's something really important to consider -- related the tailoring/personalization question in this thread too.

I looked at the page and every article (picked by AI) was quite negative in the sense that I believe it. They were articles about geopolitical grandstanding, extrajudicial executions of drug dealers, etc. Even if you took the pro-con Trump angle out (if possible), and put in <your favorite politician> I'd still not consider them positive topics.

My immediate reaction was this was really incongruent. I imagine it'll be for many others too.