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by tikimcfee 1607 days ago
It won’t make it better - it makes it more cost efficient to throw random numbers at a random number optimizer to increase the number of times they can report someone clicked or saw an ad. That’s it, end of story.

The value ad is that the engineering community that they employ has a job, the stock stays higher because of their perceived value add to the tech, and the push to control data continues unburdened by something as trivial as a lack of compute power. Hooray. Progress.