A recommendation engine is a (mis)information promoter.
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Is a library one? Results have to come out in *some* order. Should every process prioritize 'won't offend ZT'?
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So no mechanism that sorts available options and floats some to the top can be viewed as a promotion system?
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Promotion is an agentic act. The pernicious sleight of hand underlying all these tech critiques is (deliberately) confusing 'X does not positively serve my ideology' with 'X serves an enemy ideology'.
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I think that's an interpretation of an interpretation. It may even be valid. But the question of "how does comparitively benign surfing generate these kinds of recommendation results" is, in itself, also valid.
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There's an Issue there, yes. I'm confident (based on other threads I don't have to hand) that ZT is a bad actor here and has nothing constructive to add, except as an example of the problem.
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I don't give any of the people actively bringing up these complaints credit, but I *do* think recommendation algorithms from search providers need a lot of thought as to how they work. Google / YouTube already do this because folks try to game them.
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And thus it is legitimate to question the goals of the implemented strategy.
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And OP's schoolmarmish outrage is best seen as part of the struggle, a power play to b), rather than a meaningful critique.
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It definitely is, but it's also possible Google is promoting that sort of content more than it intends to (or more than it ought to, which are probably different things).
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