Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by crucialfelix on Thursday January 31, 2019 @03:14AM
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Every ML recommender driven website should have a control so you can adjust Straight <> Weird. People would love cranking the weirdness up. Instant dopamine hit (unpredictable reward function) and it would bust them out of their filter bubbles.
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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by 1_player on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:03AM
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Correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_lVSrPB6w
Getting lost in the weird side of the internet, outside your usual AI-generated recommendations is wonderful.
Human generated viralness >> machine learning recommendations.
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A machine learning algorithm walks into a bar. The waiter asks: "What'll you have?", the algorithm responds: "What everyone else is having."
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by ddalex on Thursday January 31, 2019 @04:04AM
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But then some kid will see goatx by chance and all the hell will break loose.
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by Mirioron on Thursday January 31, 2019 @04:45AM
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Let's be fair though, kids ran into that stuff all the time in the past and they turned out mostly fine. I don't see this as big of s problem as the people that get outraged make it sound.
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by dagw on Thursday January 31, 2019 @05:16AM
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The problem/fear isn't that kids run into this stuff, it's the media/lawyers blowing it out of proportion and negatively affecting the share value of Big Important Companies.
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by loneranger_11x on Thursday January 31, 2019 @04:17AM
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^ hah. that is a genuine problem
But on a serious note, mature services like youtube/instagram can do it - they know more about me than anyone else. How hard would it to be to filter by age!