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Every ML recommender driven website should have a control so you can adjust Straight <> Weird. People would love cranking the weirdness up. Instant dopamine hit
by crucialfelix 8y ago
Every ML recommender driven website should have a control so you can adjust Straight <> Weird. People would love cranking the weirdness up. Instant dopamine hit (unpredictable reward function) and it would bust them out of their filter bubbles.
- ddalex 8y agoBut then some kid will see goatx by chance and all the hell will break loose.
- loneranger_11x 8y ago^ hah. that is a genuine problem But on a serious note, mature services like youtube/instagram can do it - they know more about me than anyone else. How hard would it to be to filter by age!
- Mirioron 8y agoLet's be fair though, kids ran into that stuff all the time in the past and they turned out mostly fine. I don't see this as big of s problem as the people that get outraged make it sound.
- dagw 8y agoThe problem/fear isn't that kids run into this stuff, it's the media/lawyers blowing it out of proportion and negatively affecting the share value of Big Important Companies.
- 1_player 8y agoCorrect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_lVSrPB6w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_lVSrPB6w Getting lost in the weird side of the internet, outside your usual AI-generated recommendations is wonderful. Human generated viralness >> machine learning recommendations. -- A machine learning algorithm walks into a bar. The waiter asks: "What'll you have?", the algorithm responds: "What everyone else is having."