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We did this to ourselves here (startrek.website)
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    What would disprove it is if people would quit upvoting, reading, and watching things that make them more and more angry. Algorithms don't steer anyone. People steer themselves with the algorithms. They're essentially mirrors of one's personality. Just be aware if you upvote a post that says "Tech billionaire kills baby seals with his bare hands, has sex with the corpses, and laughs about it on TikTok", you're going to get more stuff that has all those keywords in it. However, if you upvote "How do I subdivide a mesh in Blender?" you will get a bunch of stuff about Blender, subdividing 3D models, and other topics related to that.

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    The algorithms aren't that smart. They're extraordinarily dumb.

    For example, on YT recently I got recommended an ancient video from 2011 where an ex-con was giving advice about how to pick up hookers. I looked at the comments and tons of them were recent and also confused about why they were recommended this video. After sifting through my own watch history, I realized I had recently watched the Austrian version of Eyes Wide Shut where the main character meets a hooker. So the algorithm just looked and saw the synopsis had the word "hooker" and found another video where the word "hooker" is used, and then sent it my way.

    The algorithm is not even as smart as any given free chess app that some college kid wrote over the weekend as an exercise. If the algorithm is manipulating people and hacking their brains, that's a problem with the wetware not the software. The remote control isn't hacking people's brains when they press 5 and the TV displays channel 5.

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