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This is just the latest iteration of how any website is only 7 Kevin Bacon clicks away from rotten.com. The net is vast and infinite and funnels the human id.
by hnzix 9y ago
This is just the latest iteration of how any website is only 7 Kevin Bacon clicks away from rotten.com.
The net is vast and infinite and funnels the human id.
Autotegenerated content will never be a clean feed until machine
learning evolves.
Or to put it another way, teach your kids to talk with you if they see or experience something icky.
- lliamander 9y agoAnd also don't allow access to an internet-enabled device without direct supervision until they are fairly mature.
- craftyguy 9y agoGood luck with that one.
- macawfish 9y agoMy niece's dad bought her a phone. She's 3. What the fuck. My sister is not happy with it, but I don't think she feels like she has much power over the situation.
- nvahalik 9y agoThis.
- strathmeyer 9y agoYou're not going to be able to convince people who benefited greatly from unfettered internet access in their youth to do that.
- lliamander 9y agoI too benefited from relatively unfettered access to the internet as child, but as a 14-year old, not a 4-year old.
- justincormack 9y agoBut you could use this to change the human id over time, not just reflect it.
- jacobush 9y agoNo! This is not about degrees of separation. It is about systematic abuse for profit.
- hnzix 9y ago> systematic abuse for profit Autogenerating content targeted at kids is "systematic abuse for profit" in the same way that Disney holding focus groups is "abuse". The content is clearly entertaining to kids, or else there would be no economic incentive to create it. The algorithm occasionally picks up some nasty troll content by accident (hence degrees of separation). It is clearly unintentional as it goes against the financial interests of the channels. This is a long way from "zomg illuminati bot conspiracy subliminal evil content child abuse".
- ImSkeptical 9y agoI wonder how much of this is kids not realizing they can skip videos. I'd like to do an experiment to see how quickly kids change the video for different categories of videos. Maybe they just like videos, and clicking randomly on child's links at the end of videos will eventually drop you into this maze.
- colanderman 9y agoThey 100% know they can. I've watched a 2-year-old with a phone skip through dozens of videos until they found a channel just saccharine enough to hold their attention for minutes until the phone was taken away.