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Sounds like a great conflict of interest. Emotional manipulation will become a metric to optimize. Depending on what the content manipulates you into feeling, y
by jameslk 8y ago
Sounds like a great conflict of interest. Emotional manipulation will become a metric to optimize. Depending on what the content manipulates you into feeling, you may sell more ads. This leads to more manipulative content since it's what sells more ads.
As an alternative to current targeted advertising, this seems much worse. At least I can block ads and trackers. I can't block content that's been engineered to manipulate.
- WhatIsDukkha 8y agoI agree. From the article - """Journalists and other news purists may also wonder whether the Times newsroom is now being tasked with producing lots of emotional stories. Neither is the case, Allison Murphy, senior vice president of advertising innovation, told me in an interview.""" If this isn't a lie already it will be in a few months. The simplistic counterargument is that writers do this already but as we know... once we have numbers to target the optimizations will kick in. This won't end well :P
- return0 8y agodoesnt bloomberg already reward articles that shake the markets? (at least thats a rumour)