Forget Privacy: You're Terrible at Targeting Anyway
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Forget Privacy: You're Terrible at Targeting Anyway
The important training is not STEM, coding or how AI works. (The market will take care of that.) It’s about how people work—and how businesses so often make money by manipulating people to buy things they might not need. Instead, people can learn how to manipulate themselves .
Rather than compete with computers, people need to learn how to use and m... See more
Rather than compete with computers, people need to learn how to use and m... See more
Esther Dyson • Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
To imagine one’s recommendations as wholesale “generic,” rather than generic to one’s demographic, is a step stranger. It may be a tacit acknowledgment of one’s own claim to cultural dominance—the world might look flat if you are looking at it from above—or a concession to one’s own frictionless passage through space, online and off. A U.S. passpo... See more
Anna Shechtman • Life in the Algorithm
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
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The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
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Today most algorithms that recommend or suppress content act purely on the basis of inferred popularity. They look at how much time people spend engaging with a piece of content, and boost it to more people if the numbers look good. The content itself is almost purely a black box. Some algorithms try to classify content with tags like “food” or “fu
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