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It's how I feel about kids being glued to YouTube screens with auto-suggest. The success measurement is based on stickiness and the algorithm is learning based
by schnevets 5y ago
It's how I feel about kids being glued to YouTube screens with auto-suggest. The success measurement is based on stickiness and the algorithm is learning based on failure.
Tech spent so long celebrating the virtue of failure, they neglected to recognize that some failure can be magnitudes more dangerous than others (like a web page failing to load compared to YouTube suggesting an inappropriate video to a 5 year old).
- necovek 5y agoIt's actually quite funny: they could possibly implement an algorithm that's going to move to more boring (not in child's interest) suggestions after some time (eg 1h of screen time) to encourage healthier viewing habits. But I think that's a harder problem to solve since all creators are going for addictive content, so figuring out interest is most important.