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I'd really like this as well. Open-source it. Modern social media platforms are highly profitable AI-accelerated mass manipulation systems, on steroids. These
by woudsma 5y ago
I'd really like this as well. Open-source it.
Modern social media platforms are highly profitable AI-accelerated mass manipulation systems, on steroids. These companies have little incentive and are very reluctant to changing their 'winning formula', obviously.
Misinformation is rampant and even rewarded as studies have shown repeatedly. Continuous exposure to these centralised feeds providing an infinite amount of content - managed by barely regulated for-profit companies - is worrying.
Also most platforms are based in the US, a country that has completely different social/cultural views (and laws) compared to the rest of the world. I'm glad I am not a US citizen for example. Still these platforms are being used worldwide, so I think that decisions made about the 'feed algorithm(s)' can have a big social/cultural impact on other countries. More studies (and regulation, taxes) are probably a good idea.