Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
by tripzilch on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:36AM
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> Also "engagement" is not the same as addiction.
Agreed, but the point is that FB's algorithm optimizing for "engagement" is in fact also optimizing for addiction[0]. And so are many others of a certain type of industry that includes YouTube, FB, Instagram, etc. It's not quite social networks, but a common factor seems to be that they're ad-funded and highly automated.
[0] and I believe it is currently way beyond our state of the art to design an algorithm that does not have this unwanted property.
Agreed, but the point is that FB's algorithm optimizing for "engagement" is in fact also optimizing for addiction[0]. And so are many others of a certain type of industry that includes YouTube, FB, Instagram, etc. It's not quite social networks, but a common factor seems to be that they're ad-funded and highly automated.
[0] and I believe it is currently way beyond our state of the art to design an algorithm that does not have this unwanted property.