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We're all familiar with the fact that the trustworthiness of any piece of content online is starkly inversely correlated with how hard it tries to attract your attention. Clickbait isn't trustworthy; lies can be endlessly tuned to be catchy, free from the constraints of reality.
Implication: for crowdsourced content platforms, a business model that relies on capturing attention (engagement), where attention-grabbing content gets promoted and amplified, is directly harmful to the general trustworthiness of information.
On the other hand, a business model that depends on providing *useful* information (e.g. search) would generally be biased towards reliable information.
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david foster wallace called this, in the year uhhhhhh -- it was some year before he died. it was a while ago
Good point. That's why douyin (tiktok) vloggers more and more heavily apply software makeup to attract viewers. There's a huge gap between the virtual beauty and reality
This thread is a great example for that:https://twitter.com/pixelfish/status/1137386147741442048?s=21 …
How do you differentiate between attention bc of really compelling media vs attention bc of “attention hacking”? Under the proposed model we just promote boring content. @guardian use attention metrics to implicitly optimise engagement whilst explicitly avoiding clickbait etc.
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