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True. It doesn't bother me that companies show me what they think I want to see based on a recommendation algorithm. It does bother me that they would decline
by travisoneill1 6y ago
True. It doesn't bother me that companies show me what they think I want to see based on a recommendation algorithm. It does bother me that they would decline to show me something that would otherwise be recommended because they, in their infinite wisdom, have deemed it bad.
- justaguyonline 6y agoI guess I don't see that much of a difference between someone picking what are the best articles, news and videos to show by hand and someone designing an algorithm to do the same function. Their organization still has responsibility every time they choose to show some content over others. I don't believe that when an algorithm is used, the output is suddenly not a function of human nature or human design. That suddenly no human has any responsibility for it.
- dimator 6y agoif facebook gave this post a score of -infinity, such that it is literally never recommended to anyone, doesn't show up on feeds, and you can only find it by typing in the URL, that would be fine with you?
- travisoneill1 6y agoIf it was because they predicted that no one would be interested, then yes. If it was because they disagreed with it, then no.
- cma 6y ago> It doesn't bother me that companies show me what they think I want to see based on a recommendation algorithm. It isn't a great choice for users to have to decide between debunking someone's Facebook thing in their post's comments and thereby boosting engagement and promoting it to all their friends, or just leaving it be unchallenged. Or for Youtube, do you watch a youtube video of a demagogue to prepare arguments against them, knowing that Youtube will promote it more because you watched it? We need some kind of way to interact with this stuff while getting the choice to not promote it as a result.