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It's also ripe for weaponization. We know, for example, that FB did experiments where they intentionally made people depressed by adjusting what was in their fe
by Consultant32452 4y ago
It's also ripe for weaponization. We know, for example, that FB did experiments where they intentionally made people depressed by adjusting what was in their feeds. It would be trivially easy to target a country or group of end users and gently nudge them towards depression and likely other outcomes by adjusting their feeds. All the major social media companies have ties to their parent governments and often openly with the intelligence communities. This type of thing would fall under 5th generation warfare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_warfare#Fifth_generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_warfare#Fifth_g...
- unity1001 4y agoThis is why algorithm control must be handed over to the users by providing them ways to set and customize the algorithm.
- Consultant32452 4y agoIf you had control over the algorithm, how many votes do you think you could change?