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This is almost as bad as the time I signed up for a purely partisan fishing expedition.
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Source: xkcd.com/3116/
This is almost as bad as the time I signed up for a purely partisan fishing expedition.
I really appreciate how the speech bubble is just transparency.
I just wanna shout out the choice to make the “bubble” transparent so it matches every background. That’s some quality meme-ing.
There really is an xkcd for everything.
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I saw a really interesting Ted Talk from a Google engineer waaaaaaay back in or before 2007 (I think), discussing the upcoming danger of algorithms isolating people in echo chambers.
Apparently the problem we’ve got right now is not that people can’t foresee these problems, but rather that those in charge, for whatever reason, are completely ignoring the warnings from their own engineers.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Money. It’s for money.
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Eh… everyone has different reasons, and I’m sure there’s a healthy diversity of types involved in this shit.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
There’s a Kurzgesagt video that talks about how it’s not so much that the internet is forming echo chambers as it is encouraging arguments. People aren’t just finding others that they agree with, they’re attacking people they don’t.
Finding people who agree with you isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Attacking everyone who don’t because you now know a bunch of people have your back is the dangerous part. Algorithms play this up because it drives engagement. Two tribes arguing keeps people coming back for more, so it ends up being all you see online.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
We seem to be finding our way into echo chambers just fine without algorithms or big tech as well.
zabadoh@ani.social 22 hours ago
That can’t possibly be right, because it didn’t appear in my YouTube recommendations.