whose cat is this
Why? You hungry?
The term “algorithm” in this context is simply a convenient term hiding the intentional right wing radicalization of users to push them towards pro-business policies, so can we please call this out more often?
I’m quite tired of “algorithm” standing in for the intentions behind the owners who write and maintain it.
It was also an “algorithm” that inflated rent around the country, right?
An algorithm, yes. Written with the intention of inflating rent.
It’s not an accident. Algorithm my hair-hole
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Wasn’t this literally the shady research that Facebook got caught doing with Cambridge Analytica? Specifically tweaking a user’s feed to be more negative resulted in that user posting more negative things themselves and more engagement overall.
Yep!
Facebook figured out how to monetize trolling.
Over 10 years later, it’s destroyed society, but made them a lot of money.
I wonder exactly how much of Hawaii Zuckerberg has to own before people start to question what they are getting from facebook.
They don’t have to, algorithms do whatever they are designed to do. Long division is an algorithm.
Profit motives are the issue here.
Yeah, the narrowing of the word “algorithm” to only mean “social media recommendation algorithms” is getting on my nerves.
It’s the only time normies encounter the word.
How do you feel about crypto?
Scam from start to finish
At this point, “crypto” is its own word short for “cryptocurrency”, and not for “cryptography” in the broader sense. It’s unfortunate, but that’s how people use it.
That isn’t even generally true. Try mentioning crypto on the LKML and see what they think you mean.
I don’t think Superman needs a dog.
Cryptography is pretty useful
I’ve always thought it was so funny when people say tHe aLgOrItHM like it’s a bad word or something. I know they mean social media & marketing, but it’s funny to think that they’re very concerned about something like bubble sort.
Algorithms [based on engagement]
I think the word is ragebait
Is that cat from poland?
no he’s from bangladesh
What I don’t get about this is why in this day and age with all the analytics tools we have do companies continue to just happily pay for simple eyeball exposure?
The only time they seem to have any pause at all on this model is if people post screenshots of ads for their products next to posts literally praising Nazis.
These so called AIs (LLMs) can learn to tell the difference between positive/happy/uplifting posts, neutral posts, and angry/sad/disturbing posts. The advertisers should be asking for their products to be featured next to the first and second groups of posts.
People engage based on anger, sure. They click posts and reply and whatnot. But do they click the ad next to a post that pisses them off and then buy the product?
Or is this purely a subconscious intrusion effort? Do the advertisers just want their products in front of eyeballs regardless of what’s around the ad? It seems like the answer is “no” when they’re called out. But maybe it’s “yes” if they can get away with it?
Every social media company’s content algorithm should be open source or at least a government agency should have code enforcement
Algorithms simply determine which posts will get the most interaction and feed it to people. Does it benefit corps? Of course! But it’s driven by people who choose to engage in this content.
But… I love this cat and want my fingers to engage with their fuzzy head!
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I’ve been participating in Threads (yeah, I know, should be ashamed) and I’m unfortunately a sucker for some of the ragebait, especially political.
Guess what Threads pushes at me. A lot of the dumbest ragebait. Not people that actually want to have a conversation. My fault for being a sucker, but the algorithms work.
Doesn’t really matter, I’m shadowbanned. Pissed off too many republican propagandists by refuting them, so as usual, the “report” button is their remedy.
For a long time Facebook counted an angry react as equal to five likes for measuring engagement. It’s very much intentional.
Nobody likes Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi anymore, I guess he had a good run since around 820 CE.
