It is really, *really* not okay to let your personal and professional relationships and your education be controlled by an AI that doesn't work for you but works for a company trying to profit off of you.
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All or most of those other people are being influenced in the way
@zooko describes. So you are too, indirectly, but in a large way. (Similarly: I don't use gmail, & I'm not wild about Google seeing my email. But unless I stop emailing people with gmail, I can't avoid it.)
The same problem causes confirmation bias. Even if I fight back hard against confirmation bias, if my friends have it (or their friends have it) then it affects badly what I hear.
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A couple of years ago the NYT reported on a great Nature Climate study suggesting worldwide CO2 emissions had peaked & begun to decline. I heard crickets. And I realized it's because of a kind of collective confirmation bias among people I follow for information.
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Individually, many of those people are great at avoiding the confirmation bias. But when you're relying on the network as a whole, and it's subject to confirmation bias, you're in a bad spot. I don't know what to do about this. (Off my soapbox, apols for the rant!)
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