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https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976784465245515776 https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976784465245515776 >Essentially nothing about the threat described a
by minikites 9y ago
https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976784465245515776 https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976784465245515776
>Essentially nothing about the threat described applies to Google. Nor Amazon. Nor Apple.
>It could apply to Twitter, in principle, but in practice it almost entirely doesn't.
I don't believe this for one second. Google does the exact same "algorithmic curation" with its search results. Different people get different results based on internal profiles that Google has built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble. Over time that shift in search result content acts upon people in exactly the same way as the Facebook example he describes.