YouTube's recommender algorithm operates at the scale of billions of people, and the stuff you see in English is the least worst part of it because it gets the most attention. Imagine what happens elsewhere.https://twitter.com/Khaled_Shami98/status/972915336239570946 …
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Outsourcing the responsibility (but not any of the profits) to non-profits. What could go wrong?https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/973737975208034304?s=21 …
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To be clear, one of world’s richest companies, with billions of hoarded cash, has basically threatened to crush one of the few remaining wonders of the early web because they do not want to take responsibility while minting money.https://twitter.com/wikimedia/status/973995260056625153?s=21 …
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I shouldn't be shocked, but not even giving a heads up that a giant, wildly-profitable internet corporation is about to potentially send hoards to destroy your site in order to externalize its own problems should at least deserve a heads up.
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It's the incentive structure and the business model interacting with what's technologically possible (which is expanded by the incentive structure and the business model). The rest of the story that Silicon Valley tells itself about itself is mostly fluff.https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/973988224312926208 …
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This is the best thread. Grateful and still laughing h/t
@Pinboard.https://twitter.com/acarboni/status/976545648391553024 …Show this thread
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Funny how I was watching one of your - excellent - videos about algorythms and content priorization on my computer and your tweets suddenly start popping up on my phone's feed.
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Though getting Z. Tufekci as curated content is not a worst case scenario.
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