I think it has been demonstrated multiple times that toxic content increases peoples engagement i.e. time spent on the site and looking at advertising. Decreasi

I think it has been demonstrated multiple times that toxic content increases peoples engagement i.e. time spent on the site and looking at advertising. Decreasing the time spent on the site will lower revenue. Most of what we are experiencing both on social and mainstream media is the effects of requiring an ROI for news. Before news shows had to make money (think Walter Cronkite the most trusted man in America) they actually delivered more news/facts than opinion. Today the situation is reversed. The algorithms are tuned to make this happen to maximize profit. Knowing that it is an AI doing it is irrelevant because the problem is in the model not the algorithm using the model.