It’s the new WallStreetBets GameStop saga. Fine when big companies manipulate the market, bad when normal people do it on a much smaller scale.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
lmao, nobody cares when it’s big companies silently manipulating the results like this, but once regular people become enraged enough to poison the data, now it’s something to talk about and totally represents how dystopian everything has gotten!
And while this is far from being a dangerous attempt to manipulate search results or AI algorithms, it does highlight the pitfalls of Google results becoming dependent on content generated by users who could very easily have intentions other than providing helpful information
Thanks for joining us in 2009, ArsTechnica.
www.theregister.com/2009/04/…/time_top_100_hack/
Time Magazine’s poll of the 100 most influential people has been hacked by a motley band of online troublemakers who have managed to manipulate the top 21 names so their first letters spell “marblecake, also the game.”
Vanth@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Basically what happened with meme stonks too. The rich want to keep people from playing their game…
tb_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They do want people in their game, they just don’t want them to have any influence.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Sure, you can play. Just go sit way over there.”
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nah you never even meet them. They are sitting at the top of the casino making their steady rake.