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by tripzilch
2307 days ago
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> Also "engagement" is not the same as addiction. Agreed, but the point is that FB's algorithm optimizing for "engagement" is in fact also optimizing for addiction[0]. And so are many others of a certain type of industry that includes YouTube, FB, Instagram, etc. It's not quite social networks, but a common factor seems to be that they're ad-funded and highly automated. [0] and I believe it is currently way beyond our state of the art to design an algorithm that does not have this unwanted property. |
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