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by catalogia 2152 days ago
> Do these tech companies sit on research to suggest that these algorithms can induce behavior-changing tactics through trial-and-error?

Facebook was running mood-manipulation experiments years ago and thought it was worth bragging about publicly.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/facebook-unethical-expe...

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They found extremely small effects.