As Googlers make symbolic statements on AI weapons in national defense, they seem perfectly comfortable ignoring the ways in which this same technology is used in products like search autocomplete to radicalize populations and precipitate violence. Way to be, Team Google.https://twitter.com/nxthompson/status/1002689505734938629 …
From a CS view, their algorithms are obviously not optimal. Irrelevant. You suggested that they *should* go down this route, and I am interested in your why and how. It is not totally obvious to me that Google should perform more political manipulation in autocomplete, not less.
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The question is if the "manipulation target" is to optimize the result according to what the particular user wants, or to what your democratically elected institutions (Trump?) want. What do you have in mind?
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An optimal algorithm for controlling online media would probably train itself by learning from the changes in the behavior of users in response to manipulation. What is your loss function?
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