They addressed the "political rabbit hole", but the powerful nature of algoriths to change people's lives remains completely unaddressed. People's tastes, views

They addressed the "political rabbit hole", but the powerful nature of algoriths to change people's lives remains completely unaddressed. People's tastes, views, behaviors, career paths, music tastes, and personalities are being influenced on a mass scale by totally black-box algorithms that are manually tweaked by unaccountable employees. People's psychological vulnerabilities are taken advantage of, as you can clearly see with the big rise in people faking Tourette's syndrome because of TikTok, that psychologists are now having to account for in their diagnosis and screening. "A modern clinician needs to remain abreast of social media sources as knowledge of media content is essential in managing patients in the current environment." https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mdc3.13316 https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10... We've all met people that adopted wholesale the mannerists of this-or-that online influencer; gestures, tonality, jokes and all. It's creepy as hell to see, and sure, and algorithms are reinforcing this phenomenon. An "obsessed fan" is YouTube's ideal viewer, since his engagement will be through the roof. Spotify is unprofitable, so they allow the biggest artists to pay to be promoted by their algorithms, which shapes the world's music tastes. Fat people are being recommended mukbang videos. These algorithms can be studied, as TFA does, and you can try to hold these companies accountable, but there's limited utility in doing scientific studies of algorithms that get updated multiple times a day. In today's world, manmade algorithms from a handful of huge tech companies are likely exerting more influence over human evolution than nature itself is!